daily.jstor.org/why-english-colonists-called-indigenous-dogs-wolves Why English Colonists Called Indigenous Dogs Wolves
A 1621 "wolf attack" on a Mayflower colonist wasn't a wolf attack at all. The animals sat on their tails and grinned, a historian argues, because they were Native American dogs meeting European ones for the first time in thousands of years.
— via JSTOR Daily, Matthew Wills
