According to new papers, former child actor and suspected cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse supplied his wives with firearms and “suicide pills” in case police ever sought to “break their family apart.”
According to a 50-page search warrant obtained by The Associated Press, Chasing Horse, who was arrested on sex abuse charges on Tuesday, trained his five wives to use firearms and ordered them to “shoot it out” with police if they came to tear the family apart — or ingest the fatal pills he stockpiled as a backup plan.
Chasing Horse, noted for his part in the 1990 Kevin Costner film “Dances With Wolves,” is accused of sexually assaulting Native American girls as young as 14 over the course of about two decades.
Tuesday, SWAT troops invaded his residence in north Las Vegas, following an investigation that began in October 2022. According to an arrest complaint, police recovered memory cards holding films of suspected sexual assaults, various firearms, 41 pounds of marijuana, and psilocybin mushrooms from the residence.
He was arrested by police and put into the Clark County jail, where he remains without bail pending his initial court appearance.
The sexual abuse allegations against the accused cult leader span many states and date back to the early 2000s.
Investigators asserted that Chasing Horse, 46, using his authority and power among US and Canadian tribes — whose members believed he was a “Medicine Man” and “Holy Person” capable of connecting with higher powers — to prey on young Indigenous girls and establish a cult.
The search warrant stated, “Nathan Chasing Horse used spiritual traditions and their beliefs to sexually assault young girls on multiple occasions.”
According to court documents, he will be charged with at least two charges of sex trafficking and one case of sexual assault of a child younger than 16, child abuse or neglect, and sexual assault.
Those charges continue to be pending.
On January 31, 2023, in North Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas police labor near the residence of the late actor Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse.
At least six sexual assault victims as young as 14 have been identified by the Las Vegas police as having been assaulted by Chasing Horse.
According to the document, members of the cult he is believed to run called “The Circle” reportedly offered him their underage daughters as marriages.
A 15-year-old girl was provided as a “gift” to him, according to the warrant, authorities said.
Investigators believe he also permitted other males to have sex with the victims for cash and recorded the sexual attacks.
At least two female members of “The Circle” said Chasing Horse showed them the cache of “small white pills” between 2019 and 2020 and instructed them to take one if he died or law authorities intervened.
Chasing Horse was reportedly expelled from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, more than a decade prior to his arrest, amid charges of human trafficking, drug peddling, spiritual abuse, and intimidation of tribal authorities.
Indian Country Today reported in 2015 that Fort Peck tribal chiefs voted 7-0 to prohibit him from ever stepping foot on the reservation again.
The suspected cult leader was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux tribe.
In the Academy Award-winning film “Dances with Wolves,” he portrayed a young Sioux tribal member named Smiles a Lot.