where are horses native to
These horses which are today found in several natural parks in Kagoshima Prefecture are the descendants of two dozen native horses brought to Kyushu from Kikai Shima about 1890. The breed was bred on Tokara Island and at one time was quite numerous throughout the Kagoshima region.
When the Spaniards arrived in the late 15th century, Indians had never seen horses. (Horses had been in the Americas in prehistoric times, but had died out.) The biggest impacts that horses had were. 1) when mounted, the Indians could kill buffalo. Their food supply changed.