Winfield Courier, July 5, 1877.

Painted and blanketed Indians are no uncommon sight on our streets. They are to be seen on our streets almost daily, offering for sale their ponies, bows and arrows, and gew-gaw trinkets. But a real Indian, an Indian who eats and drinks, and talks and sleeps and works and thinks like a white man, is a very rare sight in Winfield. Such a specimen of Indian civilization and domestication, however, may be seen on our streets today in the shape of an expert stone cutter, who is shaping the stone for the front of Mr. Maris' beautiful stone building, now in process of erection at the corner of 8th Avenue and Main Street. This young man is a Mohawk Indian, Amos Newhouse by name, and was educated at the Mohawk Institute in Canada. His brother is a minister of the gospel and an able scholar; can read Greek and Latin, and speaks English, French, German, Spanish, and several Indian dialects. He is chief of the six nations composed of the Mohawk, Cayuga, Tuscarora, Onandaga, Seneca, and Delaware Indians. Who has not rode in the cars through the beautiful Mohawk valley in the state of New York? Before the American Revolution these six tribes owned all the vast tract of land between the Mohawk and Niagara rivers, but, taking sides with the English they had to "git" into Canada andCstay there. Their descendants are returning to the old land, Indians, it is true, but civilized, domesticated, educated, industrious, and useful.