What The Buffalo Can Teach Us About Facing Down Fascism

This uniquely American animal has behaviors that we can emulate in trying times

The American buffalo is endemic to North America having been observed in all 50 states at one time or another. It has two subspecies, the plains bison and the wood bison, the latter of which is one of the largest wild species of extant bovid in the world.

By the end of the 19th century, the buffalo had been culled from 60 million wild individuals to just…