Former child actor and alleged cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse reportedly armed his wives with guns and “suicide pills” to use in case police tried to “separate his family,” according to new records.
chasing Horse, who was arrested on sexual assault charges on Tuesdaytrained his five wives in the use of firearms and ordered them to “shoot” with the police if they separated the family, or ingest the lethal pills he stored as a backup plan, according to a 50-page search warrant Obtained by The Associated Press.
Chasing Horse, known for his role in the 1990 Kevin Costner film “Dances With Wolves,” is accused of sexually assaulting indigenous girls as young as 14 for nearly two decades.
SWAT officers raided his North Las Vegas home Tuesday following an investigation dating back to October 2022. Police recovered memory cards containing videos of the alleged sexual assaults, multiple firearms, 41 pounds of marijuana and mushrooms. of psilocybin from the house, according to an arrest report.
He was taken into police custody and booked into the Clark County Jail, where he remains being held without bail while awaiting his first court appearance.
Allegations of sexual abuse against the accused cult leader date back to the early 2000s and span multiple states.
Investigators said the 46-year-old Chasing Horse used his influence and power among tribes in the US and Canada, whose members believed him to be a “medicine man” and a “holy person” capable of communicating with higher beings. , to take advantage of indigenous girls and create a cult. .
“Nathan Chasing Horse used spiritual traditions and his belief system as a tool to sexually assault young girls on numerous occasions,” the search warrant reads.
He will be charged with at least two counts of sex trafficking and one count of sexual assault of a child under 16, child abuse or neglect, and sexual assault, according to court records. Those charges are still pending.
Las Vegas police have identified at least six sexual assault victims who were as young as 14 when they said Chasing Horse abused them.
Followers of the cult he is believed to lead called “The Circle” reportedly offered him their underage daughters to take as wives, according to the document.
He was offered a girl as a “gift” when he was just 15 years old, police said in the court order.
He also allowed other men to have sex with the victims for payment and recorded the sexual assaults, investigators alleged.
At least two women in “The Circle” cult said Chasing Horse had shown them the stash of “little white pills” between 2019 and 2020 and told them to swallow one and kill themselves if they died or the police intervened.
More than 10 years before his arrest, Chasing Horse was reportedly forced off the Fort Peck reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking, drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal leaders.
In 2015, Fort Peck tribal leaders voted 7-0 to ban him from ever setting foot on the reservation again, Indian Country Today reported.
The accused cult leader was born on the Rosebud Reservation, home of the Sicangu Sioux tribe, in South Dakota.
He played the role of a young Sioux tribesman named Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning film “Dances with Wolves.”
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