Cynthia Ann would have been relatively happy, and entirely oblivious to the fact that joining the Penateka at that time was the modern day equivalent of “being adopted into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1932” (Gwynne 110).
Cynthia Ann eventually forgot her mother tongue, joined the Penateka band with her husband, a prominent warrior, and gave birth to son Quanah.
In the 1840's chief Buffalo Hump had a vision of driving settlers into the ocean. He assembled his braves and went off to fight.
The war culminated at the Battle of Pease River where the Penateka were destroyed by Texas Rangers. Cynthia Ann was recaptured by the Texans, her husband was killed, and Quanah Parker escaped.
Half the band was killed in the 1949 Cholera epidemic, and in 1854 Buffalo Hump negotiated his remaining people onto reservations.
The fall of the Penateka foreshadowed what was to come for the rest of Comancheria.