I'm glad to hear it. Since there are so few permits why not discriminate and give them to people for whom the buffalo were part of their religion.
All we ever did was massacre the buffalo assembly line style.
You hold a rather mythologized and hollywoodized view of the buffalo. The plains indians were rather sloppy with how they killed buffalo. They would run them over cliffs (called pishkins), slaughtering far more than their tribe could ever use that year, leaving injured buffalo to suffer. They were not the noble hunters you perceive them to be.