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This is the first recorded instance where White men were brought to trial and hanged for killing Indians, LOGAN among them. The Judge’s sentencing statement is worth reading.
‘google’ fall creek massacre
(the link to connerpraire.org/HistoryOnline doesn’t work)
Thanks Bill —
I had never heard of this event.
found the following —
http://www.connerprairie.org/HistoryOnline/fallcreek.html
(It was working for me — maybe it was temporarily offline)
The Fall Creek Massacre was the name given to the brutal murders of a peaceful group of Seneca and Miami Indians by white settlers. The actual massacre occurred on March 22, 1824 in Madison County, Indiana between Fall Creek and Deer Lick Creek
Those killed –
Logan: A subordinate chief of Seneca Indians; Known as “a person of great distinction and greatly esteemed among the Senecas.” A “venerable old chief, whose name ought to have been his passport and protection from Maine to Georgia, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic” and “A friend of the white men” (Bloomington Indiana Gazette Nov 13, 1824)
Ludlow: A Seneca Indian
Three women (one was mixed blood, white and Delaware), two ten-year-old boys and two younger girls
M’Doal: A Seneca Indian; part of the group but not in camp during the massacre, was wounded as he fled the killing of the women and children
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