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If you're going to dye your own, they do make sealant stripping chemicals that clean off that stuff so your dye will actually hold. (And it does matter. I did it in the wrong order once, sealant then dye, and that really didn't work.) The best advice I can give for that, is after you dye it, buff the leather with a soft cloth so that any extra dye rubs off before you seal it. (If the dye would rub off, and you put sealant on top, then the sealant clings just to the extra dye that rubs off, so the dye and sealant rubs off.... Bad stuff.)
But I kinda like the natural leather option, because now I can dye it the way I want. :D
It's a really odd choice of hide for the application. If you were to grade leather on a durability scale, this is the Caterpillar BullDozer of leather. In the event of a Nuclear holocaust, this is what we'll all be wearing in 30 years like slabs of bark strapped to our softer bits, it's the only thing that won't have rotted, been eaten or burned for warmth/used for bandages. I've used this stuff quite a bit. One of the things I used to use it for was door hinges in outdoor areas where I didn't want to deal with the hinge rusting. Performs identically well to it's steel counterpart on a full sized door.