Bail set for ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor as police in Canada apply for extra fees

Bail has been set at $300,000 for a former actor within the film “Dances With Wolves” who’s dealing with eight sex-related fees in Nevada as police in Canada say extra complainants there have come ahead.

Data from the North Las Vegas Court docket web site says if Nathan Chasing Horse can submit bail, he might be launched on home arrest and can be electronically monitored. He can not have contact with the complainants or any minors.

Beneath Nevada regulation, Chasing Horse must pay 15 per cent of the bail — about $45,000.

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 in opposition to a toddler youthful than 16 and baby abuse.

Court docket paperwork stated he was the chief of a cult-like group known as “The Circle.”

“Nathan Chasing Horse, by portraying himself as a ‘Holy Man’ or ‘Drugs Man’, has gained the belief of Indigenous households and their kids,” an arrest report filed within the U.S. stated. “Upon incomes this belief, Nathan Chasing Horse used his place to lure weak younger ladies, typically giving them a way of belonging, to commit sexual assault.”

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‘Dances with Wolves’ actor dealing with a number of U.S. fees now accused of sexual assault in Keremeos

Chasing Horse can also be dealing with a cost of sexual assault in British Columbia for allegations within the southern Inside 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 together 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 Decrease Similkameen Indian Band.

The girl 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 means of making use of for 2 warrants for formal fees in opposition to 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 might be coming.

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Tsuut’ina Police submitting arrest warrant for ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor

“We now have obtained a number of Crime Stoppers ideas,” Farmer stated Wednesday.

“We’ve spoken to a number of victims and a number of other witnesses have come ahead in relation to the actions of Mr. Chasing Horse.”

U.S. arrest paperwork detailed how the Alberta police service obtained a criticism earlier this yr from a girl who alleges she was sexually assaulted as a 15-year-old and brought to the US as certainly one of Chasing Horse’s a number of wives.

The girl stated she additionally met Chasing Horse when he got here to her group to do ceremonies. Paperwork say Chasing Horse allegedly had intercourse with {the teenager} a number of occasions whereas she was nonetheless in Canada.

In 2009, she flew to the U.S. and, not lengthy after when she was 17 years previous, he gave her a hoop.

“He stated it was like a promise ring and I feel that was his manner of marrying me,” the girl stated within the courtroom paperwork.

That lady ultimately returned to Canada as a result of she may 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.

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‘Dances with Wolves’ actor arrested, accused of operating intercourse cult, abusing younger ladies

The paperwork element how Chasing Horse had all his wives get spider tattoos to characterize Iktomi, a trickster spirit in Lakota tradition, and a tattoo of his conventional identify.

The ladies have been taught to make use of firearms and, courtroom paperwork allege, he instructed the wives about “suicide capsules” they’d must take if he have been apprehended by police or died.

Police in the US stated they’ve recognized at the very least six victims, together with one who stated she was supplied to Chasing Horse as a “present” 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 handed a decision banning him from all group occasions within the Alberta group.

Final 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 Related Press

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