Former child actor and alleged cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse reportedly armed his wives with guns and “suicide pills” to use in case police ever tried to “break up their family,” according to new data.
Chasing Horse, who was arrested Tuesday on charges of sexual assault, trained his five wives to use firearms and ordered them to “shoot out” with police if they came to tear the family apart — or take the deadly pills. he had saved 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 movie “Dances With Wolves” – has been accused of sexually assaulting Native girls as young as 14 for about two decades.
SWAT officers raided his north Las Vegas home on Tuesday following an investigation dating back to October 2022. Police found memory cards containing videos of the alleged assaults, multiple firearms, 41 pounds of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms from the home, according to a arrest report.
He was taken into police custody and held at the Clark County Jail, where he is being held without bail pending his first trial.
The 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 American and Canadian tribes — whose members believed him to be a “medicine man” and “sacred person” who was able to communicate with higher beings — to educate young native chasing girls and creating a cult. .
“Nathan Chasing Horse used spiritual traditions and their belief system on numerous occasions as a means of sexually assaulting young girls,” the search warrant said.
According to the court, he is charged with at least two counts of sex trafficking and one count of sexual assault against a child under the age of 16, child abuse or neglect and sexual assault. Those charges are still pending.
Las Vegas police have identified at least six sexual assault victims who were just 14 years old when they said they were abused by Chasing Horse.
Followers of the sect he would lead, dubbed “The Circle,” reportedly offered their underage daughters to take him as wife, according to the document.
A girl was presented to him as a “gift” when she was just 15, police said in the warrant.
He also allowed other men to have sex with the victims for a fee and recorded the assaults, investigators claimed.
At least two women in the cult of “The Circle” said Chasing Horse showed them the stash of “little white pills” between 2019 and 2020 and told them to swallow one to commit suicide if he died or if police intervened came.
More than 10 years before his arrest, Chasing Horse was reportedly banned from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana amid allegations of human trafficking, drug trafficking, mental abuse and harassment of tribal leaders.
In 2015, Fort Peck tribal leaders voted 7 to 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 movie “Dances with Wolves”.
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