We just watched Ken Burns special on Bison. I am going to attempt to put our impressions in context with current news

[Backseat Driver]

5. Shout out to H20 Man - We began streaming Ken Burns

documentary on The American Buffalo that was streamed as a series on pbs.org. Last night, we got a 7-day trial through our provider for this documentary, and I have to say that the first episode last night embarrassed and saddened me like nothing else I've known in our American history, matched only by Hitler's Holocost and the Ukrainian Holodomor in its horror on human populations across the globe in more recent days. Don't know how I'll get through the rest of the series on top of all the current hurt over the gun violence, hate, and greed in our news these days. What hurt the most was the shooting of the mamas but not the babies who depended on the herd for so much -- learning the life, food, protection -- we killed the adult herds and the babies starved to death or were deprived of their social village and the experienced lessons of that village--The indigenous native Americans died too by gun, disease, and starvation and would never return to their "rich" cultural lives on the grasslands and prairies of America. I have to ask, "Who, as humans, have really ever lived it better by active violence or passive agression?"