Bail has been set at $300,000 for a former actor within the film “Dances With Wolves” who’s going through eight sex-related fees in Nevada as police in Canada say extra complainants there have come ahead.
Information from the North Las Vegas Court web site says if Nathan Chasing Horse can submit bail, he could possibly be launched on home arrest and could be electronically monitored. He can not have contact with the complainants or any minors.
Under Nevada legislation, Chasing Horse must pay 15 per cent of the bail — about $45,000.
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The 46-year-old actor, who performed younger Sioux character Smiles a Lot in Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning movie, was formally charged Monday in North Las Vegas with counts together with intercourse trafficking, sexual assault towards a baby youthful than 16 and youngster abuse.
Court paperwork stated he was the chief of a cult-like group referred to as “The Circle.”
“Nathan Chasing Horse, by portraying himself as a ‘Holy Man’ or ‘Medicine Man’, has gained the trust of Indigenous families and their children,” an arrest report filed within the U.S. stated. “Upon earning this trust, Nathan Chasing Horse used his position to lure vulnerable young girls, often giving them a sense of belonging, to commit sexual assault.”
Chasing Horse can be going through a cost of sexual assault in British Columbia for allegations within the southern Interior village of Keremeos in September 2018.
The U.S. arrest report alleges the British Columbia lady was 13 years previous when she met Chasing Horse whereas he was performing ceremonies within the province.
Her household despatched her to stick with the actor as a result of she was sick and shortly she started travelling with him to ceremonies, the report stated. She alleges he started to have intercourse along with her when she was 17.
In 2018, after they ended the connection, she alleges he sexually assaulted her whereas he was in Canada for a present placed on by the Lower Similkameen Indian Band.
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The lady reported it to authorities and RCMP contacted Las Vegas police, which prompted the investigation that led to his arrest.
Police in Alberta stated they’re additionally within the technique of making use of for 2 warrants for formal fees towards Chasing Horse in that province.
Sgt. Nancy Farmer with the Tsuut’ina police, which serves the First Nation west of Calgary, stated much more fees could possibly be coming.
“We have received several Crime Stoppers tips,” Farmer stated Wednesday.
“We’ve spoken to several victims and several witnesses have come forward in relation to the actions of Mr. Chasing Horse.”
U.S. arrest paperwork detailed how the Alberta police service acquired a criticism earlier this 12 months from a girl who alleges she was sexually assaulted as a 15-year-old and brought to the United States as one in all Chasing Horse’s a number of wives.
The lady stated she additionally met Chasing Horse when he got here to her group to do ceremonies. Documents say Chasing Horse allegedly had intercourse with {the teenager} a number of occasions whereas she was nonetheless in Canada.
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In 2009, she flew to the U.S. and, not lengthy after when she was 17 years previous, he gave her a hoop.
“He said it was like a promise ring and I think that was his way of marrying me,” the lady stated within the court docket paperwork.
That lady finally returned to Canada as a result of she might now not take the bodily and emotional abuse, the paperwork stated.
The report alleges that Chasing Horse made his wives have intercourse with different males and take “phoenix tears,” a extremely concentrated type of hashish.
The paperwork element how Chasing Horse had all his wives get spider tattoos to signify Iktomi, a trickster spirit in Lakota tradition, and a tattoo of his conventional identify.
The girls had been taught to make use of firearms and, court docket paperwork allege, he advised the wives about “suicide pills” they’d must take if he had been apprehended by police or died.
Police within the United States stated they’ve recognized no less than six victims, together with one who stated she was supplied to Chasing Horse as a “gift” when she was 15.
Chasing Horse had already been banned from Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana on the grounds of human trafficking in 2015. The similar 12 months, the Tsuut’ina band council handed a decision banning him from all group occasions within the Alberta group.
Last week, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan, additionally banned Chasing Horse.
–with recordsdata from Colette Derworiz in Calgary and The Associated Press
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