Bail has been set at $300,000 for a former actor within the movie “Dances With Wolves” who’s facing eight sex-related charges in Nevada as police in Canada say more complainants there have come forward.
Information from the North Las Vegas Court website says if Nathan Chasing Horse can post bail, he may very well be released on house arrest and could be electronically monitored. He cannot have contact with the complainants or any minors.
Under Nevada law, Chasing Horse would should pay 15 per cent of the bail — about $45,000.
The 46-year-old actor, who played young Sioux character Smiles a Lot in Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning film, was formally charged Monday in North Las Vegas with counts including sex trafficking, sexual assault against a toddler younger than 16 and child abuse.
Court documents said he was the leader of a cult-like group called “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. said. “Upon earning this trust, Nathan Chasing Horse used his position to lure vulnerable young girls, often giving them a way of belonging, to commit sexual assault.”
Chasing Horse can be facing a charge 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 woman was 13 years old when she met Chasing Horse while he was performing ceremonies within the province.
Her family sent her to stick with the actor because she was sick and shortly she began travelling with him to ceremonies, the report said. She alleges he began to have sex together with her when she was 17.
In 2018, after they ended the connection, she alleges he sexually assaulted her while he was in Canada for a show placed on by the Lower Similkameen Indian Band.
The lady reported it to authorities and RCMP contacted Las Vegas police, which prompted the investigation that led to his arrest.
Police in Alberta said also they are within the technique of applying for 2 warrants for formal charges against Chasing Horse in that province.
Sgt. Nancy Farmer with the Tsuut’ina police, which serves the First Nation west of Calgary, said much more charges may very well be coming.
“We’ve received several Crime Stoppers suggestions,” Farmer said Wednesday.
“We’ve spoken to several victims and several other witnesses have come forward in relation to the actions of Mr. Chasing Horse.”
U.S. arrest documents detailed how the Alberta police service received a grievance earlier this yr from a lady who alleges she was sexually assaulted as a 15-year-old and brought to the USA as one among Chasing Horse’s multiple wives.
The lady said she also met Chasing Horse when he got here to her community to do ceremonies. Documents say Chasing Horse allegedly had sex with the teenager multiple times while she was still in Canada.
In 2009, she flew to the U.S. and, not long after when she was 17 years old, he gave her a hoop.
“He said it was like a promise ring and I believe that was his way of marrying me,” the girl said within the court documents.
That woman eventually returned to Canada because she could not take the physical and emotional abuse, the documents said.
The report alleges that Chasing Horse made his wives have sex with other men and take “phoenix tears,” a highly concentrated type of cannabis.
The documents detail how Chasing Horse had all his wives get spider tattoos to represent Iktomi, a trickster spirit in Lakota culture, and a tattoo of his traditional name.
The ladies were taught to make use of firearms and, court documents allege, he told the wives about “suicide pills” they’d should take if he were apprehended by police or died.
Police in the USA said they’ve identified at the least six victims, including one who said she was offered 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 identical yr, the Tsuut’ina band council passed a resolution banning him from all community events within the Alberta community.
Last week, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan, also banned Chasing Horse.
–with files from Colette Derworiz in Calgary and The Associated Press
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