[4] Indian Creek is part of the Lower Fox River watershed.

In 1830, William Davis settled with his family along Indian Creek where he built a sawmill in 1831.

[6] The attack at Indian Creek was most likely spurred by the actions of a settler named William Davis.

Keewasee, a young Potawatomi from the village, was particularly angry about the dam and insisted that Davis remove it.

[1] Though the massacre occurred shortly after the start of the Black Hawk War, there is no evidence that Black Hawk sanctioned the massacre and the violence at Indian Creek is seen as an act of personal revenge which was peripheral to the war.