European attacks and brutal shootings of whole family groups of Aboriginal Australians are part of the history of the region, though often not well documented. One attack took place at Skull Creek in the Northern Territory near Barrow Creek in the 1870s, which resulted in the bleached bones and thus the name for the place. There is a well documented report of a massacre in 1926 by a police party on the Forrest River Mission (now the Aboriginal community of Oombulgurri), in the East Kimberleys. Though there was a Royal commission into the reported killing and burning of Aboriginal people in East Kimberley, the police allegedly involved were brought to trial and acquitted.