Posted on 01/31/2023 9:54:39 PM PST by Libloather
NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former “Dances With Wolves” actor turned alleged cult leader accused of sexually assaulting young Indigenous girls during a period spanning two decades, according to police records obtained by The Associated Press.
Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, who goes by Nathan Chasing Horse, was taken into custody in the afternoon near the North Las Vegas home he is said to share with his five wives. SWAT officers were seen outside the two-story home in the evening as detectives searched the property.
Known for his role as the young Sioux tribe member Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film, Chasing Horse gained a reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a so-called medicine man who performed healing ceremonies and spiritual gatherings and, police allege, used his position to abuse young Native American girls.
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Although the warrant includes details of crimes reported elsewhere, the arrest stems from crimes allegedly committed in Nevada’s Clark County. They include sex trafficking, sexual assault of a child younger than 16 and child abuse.
Some of the alleged victims were as young as 13, according to the warrant. One of Chasing Horse’s wives was allegedly offered to him as a “gift” when she was 15, while another became a wife after turning 16.
Chasing Horse also is accused of recording sexual assaults and arranging sex with the victims for other men who allegedly paid him.
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I would just call culturally proper for his tribe.
As native tribe tended to marry off women/girls very young and many wife’s was a thing of status.
Women were treaded and property.
No. Nothing is. They may try to tell you it is, but we’re all the human race and I’m tired of being told what I can and cannot say.
That can’t be right. The native Americans lived socially equitable lives until the white man came.
Diversity!
Just having one turns the hair on my head grey.
Hunter Biden is reportedly very upset he didn’t figure out how to become a Medicine Man cult leader.
...with his five wives?
You are right. Also having Indian girls starting to have children as soon as possible was strategic good sense. as there never were enough Indians, especially braves, and Indians died young for a lot of reasons, one being their precarious nomadic lifestyle.
BTW, there are white societies where very young sexual maturity is followed by early marriage and early maternity. A Louisiana state police officer told me his mother was 14 when he was born as she was married when she was 13 to a parish deputy sheriff who was just 18. He remembers being taken to his mom’s high school graduation by grandma as he remembers it was one of the few times he could have all the cake and ice cream he could eat.
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