David Cusick

[3] His father, Nicholas Cusick (1756–1840), was a Revolutionary War veteran and an interpreter for the Congregationalist mission to the Seneca.

The first part describes Good Mind, who created people called Eagwehoewe.

The second describes the Eagwehoewe's experiences with malevolent beings called the Stonish Giants and Flying Heads, among others.

[16] The earliest people were championed by the hero Donhtonha and the less heroic Yatatonwatea and plagued by the mischievous Shotyeronsgwea.

Critic Joshua David Bellin notes that, "considering how rare Sketches was—rare both in numbers and, as the first self-proclaimed history in English by a North American Indian, in kind—the attention, and hostility, it drew are little short of remarkable".