The document that Henderson handed the chiefs on October 21 was a grandiloquent guarantee of eternal harmony between Indians and whites that offered the Indians houses, farm implements, and schools—the very things they had rejected in council. And it boxed them in. The Comanches and the Kiowas were to share a 2.9-million-acre tract in Indian Territory comprising the southwestern half of present-day Oklahoma. It was good land in traditional Comanche territory, but it represented only a fraction of the country that had been Comancheria at its apex.
