By Tobias Carroll In the 19th century, buffalo in North America were hunted to the brink of extinction, with around 300 remaining by century’s end. The campaign to hunt buffalo was inexorably connected to the nation’s policies regarding Indigenous Americans, with many enthusiastically hunting buffalo with the aim of reducing Native Americans’ food supply. Over a hundred years later, that effort is now seen as a historical atrocity — with a number of diverse participants now invested in cultivating a thriving population of buffalo (technically, bison) in the United States. Writing at The Guardi…