2023: Chasing Horse Charged With More Sex Crimes In New Canadian Case

LAS VEGAS — In the most recent criminal case to be brought against the former “Dances With Wolves,” actor Nathan Chasing Horse was charged in Alberta, Canada, with new sex crimes. The actor is still being held in jail in Las Vegas while he awaits trial in a massive sexual abuse case that has shocked Indian Country and helped law enforcement in two countries confirm long-standing allegations against him.

Sgt. Nancy Farmer of the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service recognized that the Alberta case is primarily symbolic during a virtual press conference on Wednesday. Chasing Horse may never return to Canada to face justice because he would face criminal prosecution in five other countries and decades in a Nevada prison if found guilty in the Las Vegas case.

Farmer concluded by saying that we needed to have these warrants on file so that our victims would know they had been heard. We must keep assisting them in this manner.

The Associated Press repeatedly requested an interview with Chasing Horse in the county jail, but he turned them down. His Las Vegas public defender, Kristy Holston, declined to comment on the fresh accusations. It took time to be made clear if Chasing Horse had a Canadian lawyer who could speak for him.

Former “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse was charged in Alberta, Canada, with new sex crimes.

Farmer stated that nine charges, including three counts of sexual exploitation and four counts of sexual assault, were brought against the 47-year-old in Alberta. She claimed that as of 2005, the crimes committed were within their purview.

The Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation, reside on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where Chasing Horse was born. He is well-known for playing Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning movie starring Kevin Costner.

Chasing Horse gained notoriety among American and Canadian Indian tribes as a self-described medicine man who could speak with supernatural beings after appearing in the 1990 film. Starting in the early 2000s, Las Vegas police and prosecutors have accused him of exploiting that position to form a cult, acquire access to weak Indigenous women and girls, and take underage wives.

In the Las Vegas case, he is accused of 18 offenses, including kidnapping, child abuse, and sexual assault of a juvenile. Additionally, he is being criminally prosecuted in the British Columbian community of Keremeos, in Nevada’s U.S. District Court, and on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Chasing Horse awaits the outcome of his appeal, which he filed last month to the Nevada Supreme Court asking for his indictment to be overturned, court proceedings in the Las Vegas case have been put on indefinite hold.

In court documents, Chasing Horse and his public defenders claimed that his accusers wanted sex with him. One of the women claims that Chasing Horse started assaulting her when she was under the legal age of consent in Nevada, which is 16 years old.

SOURCE – (AP)