Dances With Wolves actor goes to court for sexual abuse

The for­mer ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor, who faces at least five felony charges for alleged­ly sex­u­al­ly abus­ing Indi­an girls, will appear before a judge for the first time in the case on Thursday.

Poten­tial charges against Nathan Chas­ing Horse, 46, include sex traf­fick­ing and sex­u­al assault, accord­ing to court records. Clark Coun­ty pros­e­cu­tors have not said when he will be for­mal­ly charged or if fur­ther charges will be filed.

Las Vegas police arrest­ed Chas­ing Horse this week after a month-long inves­ti­ga­tion into alleged abuse span­ning two decades.

He remains in the Clark Coun­ty jail with­out bail Wednes­day night on sex­u­al assault charges. A judge is sched­uled to rule on his deten­tion sta­tus and set bail on Thursday.

Best known for play­ing a Sioux youth in Kevin Cost­ner’s Acad­e­my Award-win­ning “Smiles a Lot”, Chas­ing Horse has served as a med­i­cine man per­form­ing heal­ing cer­e­monies among tribes in the Unit­ed States and Cana­da. became pop­u­lar in

Accord­ing to his arrest war­rant, he was the leader of a cult called The Cir­cle, which had many fol­low­ers who believed he could com­mu­ni­cate with high­er powers.

Police say he abused his posi­tion to phys­i­cal­ly and sex­u­al­ly assault indige­nous girls and women, mar­ry under­age wives, and lead a cult. He was arrest­ed out­side his home near Las Vegas where he lives with five wives.

Chas­ing Horse was born on the Rose­bud Reser­va­tion in South Dako­ta, home to the Sikung Sioux, one of the sev­en Lako­ta tribes.

A 50-page search war­rant obtained by the Asso­ci­at­ed Press on Tues­day said Chas­ing Horse taught his wives how to use firearms and instruct­ed them to “shoot and kill” police offi­cers who tried to “take the fam­i­ly apart.” When that fails, the wives are forced to take “sui­cide pills.”

He was arrest­ed after leav­ing his home in North Las Vegas. In the evening, SWAT per­son­nel appeared out­side the two-sto­ry house, and detec­tives were seen raid­ing the house.

Police found a firearm, 18.5 kilo­grams (41 pounds) of mar­i­jua­na and psilo­cy­bin mush­rooms, and a mem­o­ry card con­tain­ing videos of mul­ti­ple sex­u­al assaults, accord­ing to an arrest report released Wednesday.