An aside, some might be interested to know that the story of the two wolves was invented by a white man and runs against most tribes’ notion of goodness and badness https://crossingenres.com/you-know-that-charming-story-about-the-two-wolves-its-a-lie-d0d93ea4ebff. You don’t present it as an Indian story, but it’s hard to hear the story and imagine that that grandpa is an old timey european, talking about good wolves. Europeans historically have not tended to believe in good wolves, or, in the least, they always call those “dogs”. This extended to indian dogs, which were visually indistinguishable from, and probably genetically indistinguishable from wolves, but when europeans encountered them they could not bring themselves to call them wolves, for clearly they were sociable and well behaved, and wolves could be no such thing.
An aside, some might be interested to know that the story of the two wolves was invented by a white man and runs against most tribes’ notion of goodness and badness https://crossingenres.com/you-know-that-charming-story-about-the-two-wolves-its-a-lie-d0d93ea4ebff. You don’t present it as an Indian story, but it’s hard to hear the story and imagine that that grandpa is an old timey european, talking about good wolves. Europeans historically have not tended to believe in good wolves, or, in the least, they always call those “dogs”. This extended to indian dogs, which were visually indistinguishable from, and probably genetically indistinguishable from wolves, but when europeans encountered them they could not bring themselves to call them wolves, for clearly they were sociable and well behaved, and wolves could be no such thing.
That is what I thought. Not “old timey” per se, but modern grandparent age. The story feels five to ten years old, to me.