The Battle of Tippecanoe resulted from the tensions between land-hungry Euro-Americans and their Native American neighbors.  When a coalition of Native Americans gathered near modern-day Lafayette, Indiana,  William Henry Harrison (Indiana's territorial governor) organized an army to disperse them.  The Prophet (Tenskwatawa) attacked the territorial soldiers on Nov. 7; in response, Harrison drove off the Native Americans and burned the town. 

Tension would remain high in all the Indian territory the New Orleans passed through.