In the 1820s, the shores of Falls Creek in the flat lands of Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis, included settlements of both white trappers and Native Americans — whose tribal identities are not preserved in the historical record, this being a time of great upheaval for the tribes in this region. On this day in 1824, after several days of heavy drinking and nurturing rage over the perception that Native Americans had stolen from their traps and had threatened a white woman who had refused a trade, seven armed white men walk into a Native settlement near a waterfall, and massacre nine people, including women and children. The men are charged with murder and largely found guilty in a trial that gains national attention. Three of the men are publicly hanged.