The Texas Historical Commission marker says that after losing their horses and supplies, the families “drifted back to their reservations at Fort Sill and Fort Reno.”

The word “drifted” is doing a great deal of work in that sentence.

What actually happened was that the families who had escaped the canyon were now on the open Staked Plains of the Texas Panhandle, in the early days of October 1874, with sharply reduced horse herds, no lodges, no food stores, and the full weight of the Red River War campaign pressing on them from five directions.

This was not a situation that produced organized military resistance.