#bc spoiler: they dont look like fluffy husky-GSD mixes

[kangals]

What's your thoughts on American Indian dogs? (This is a picture of 2 of them that came into the pet supply store I used to work at).

im gonna be honest, i know they exist but not much beyond that - they're not a breed i find particularly interesting, so i haven't looked into them. are these the same things as native american indian dogs, or are those different? there's sooo many of these generic-husky-shepherdy-wolfy projects that i can never remember what is what. but at least with NAIDs i'm pretty sure i remember some bullshit going around recently with a breeder(s?) claiming their dogs had no wolf content when they actually had a significant amount, which is, uh, wildly unethical.

i'm also innately distrustful of any sort of 'historic breed recreation' like this because they tend to be a very... almost fetishistic sort of project. especially considering this is supposed to be a recreation of the dogs that lived with native americans and first nations. are native people actually involved in this project and helping with guidance and direction? or is this just yet another case of Dog People deciding that a historic, landrace breed should Actually Look Like This and ignoring their place of origin? are we actually studying the historic dogs and using the modern american village dogs and rez dogs that still exist today as our founders? or are we just mashing wolfy-looking breeds together because wolves = majestic = totally native american?

idk man i'd love to be proven wrong here, so if someone can refute this and show me that this is a project sanctioned by actual native peoples and with a concise goal in mind, cool. but my surface impression has been more or less that it's Dog People playing dress-up with wolfy-looking dogs under the guise of claiming it's a breed recreation.

#sorry this is kind of shitty answer to what was probably an innocent question this kind of stuff just really strikes me as in poor taste #(the breed project not the question) #i am hiiiiiiiiiiiighly suspicious of historic breed recreations just on principal bc theyre virtually never done for realistic goals #more just 'hey this picture of an old dog looks cool lets mash a bunch of breeds together until i make a puppy that looks similar' #but like. even in this picture these just look like 2 GSD/husky mixes lol. #again look at real village dogs. or look at like greenland dogs that are still used for their historic work #bc spoiler: they dont look like fluffy husky-GSD mixes