They were a savage people, enslaving conquered tribes, who hadn't even figured out how to use horses for riding
There weren't any horses to ride. Horses didn't exist in North or South America until Europeans introduced them.
Horses are actually from North America but went extinct and were reintroduced by Europeans. Side note, camels were also indigenous to North America.
"The modern horse (Equus caballus) evolved on the North American continent. Disappearing from this area around 10,000 years ago (end of the Pleistocene epoch), it survived on the European/Asian continent. Horses were brought back to North America by the Spanish in the 1500s."
and the "Indians" killed all the camels for food.
Horses were not native to the americas
but if you watch just about any movie with horses and indians in it, indians on horses.
edit: word salad
There was a horse but it was all dinky and useless. Like everything else, Europeans made it better. (Although probably Asians first in this case.)
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There were horses in the Americas before Europeans brought theirs here. But the Natives killed them all for food.
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