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Although she had previously voiced the wise and protective Raksha, an Indian wolf in Disney’s photorealistic 2016 remake of “The Jungle Book,” Nyong’o knew “The Wild Robot” would require a deeper commitment.

Most recently, the makers of the Twilight movies made sure to cast Native American actors in the roles of the Quileute Indian wolf pack, a deliberate move which avoided the whitewashing to which Hollywood often resorts.

The domestic dogs of some North American Indian tribes closely resemble the coyote; the black wolfdog of Florida resembles the black wolf of the same region; the sheepdogs of Europe and Asia resemble the wolves of those countries, whilst the pariah dog of India is closely similar to the Indian wolf.

Set were their big, mild eyes, all glassy with amazement—the sun a mile too high for milking time, not a sign in the sky to show for a coming thunder storm; not a yell, not a howl, not a scream in the forest to tell of Indian, wolf or panther.

In Asia we have just the same series of varieties—that is, in every part of the great continent is found some representative of the tribe, which in reality is no variety, but an original and indigenous animal of the wolf kind—such as the Sandgah, or Indian wolf of the Himalayas; the Beriah, another Indian wolf; and the Derboom, a black species that inhabits the mountains of Arabia and Syria.