Letters from two young Christian Onondaga Indians, Thomas La Fort and Jameson L. Thomas, about their efforts to get an education so they might help their tribe; from Chief David Hill, leader of the Christian Onondagas, asking for financial and political aid when the New York state legislature refused money for a school on the Onondaga reservation, and when the Christian and pagan Indians sought to divide the reservation between them.

This thesis contains text written by Newton, and transcriptions of letters to and from Parrish and other documents. Contains 54 letters and 5 maps pertaining to Indian affairs in New York State, from the Vassar College collection of Parrish papers.