After Texas was annexed into the United States, most of the Lipans were moved to Oklahoma, where they were gradually absorbed into the Tonkawa tribe. However, some of the Lipans had refused to surrender their freedom and identity and had fled into Mexico. They frequently raided across the Rio Grande into Texas until the late 1870�s, gradually settling down to a life of hardship and eventual extinction.

In 1903, the Mexican government rounded up the remaining Lipans and moved them to Chihuahua. Two years later when an escort from the United States came to move the Lipans to the Mescalero Apache Reservation, he found them in a corral. They were being treated like cattle under guard. They lived in filthiness with no shelter and little in the way of clothing or covering. The guards threw ears of corn to them as if they were animals, and they ate the corn raw because they had no way to cook it. By this time, there were only 19 Lipan Apache left, and they were assimilated into the Mescalero Apache tribe.

Perhaps the "n'de tindi" knew what would happen to them. According to Apache legend, the ancient ones said: When the earth had been made, Killer of Enemies put us down right here. Then there were only Indians scattered over the country. Where have they gone? Now there remains only a handful. And white men have filled up that which was the land of the Indians. Long ago there were no white men. The people of long ago spoke thus, "Only white men with blue eyes will live in this country." Now it has become so. The Indians spoke thus long ago. They did not speak incorrectly.