- Nathan Chasing Horse, known for his role in Dances With Wolves, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Nevada for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.
- A jury convicted him of 13 charges, mostly of sexual assault, following accusations from three women, one of whom was 14 when the abuse began.
- Victims and their families testified about the profound trauma and spiritual distress caused by Chasing Horse, who exploited his position as a spiritual leader.
- Chasing Horse, who denied the charges and called the sentencing a "miscarriage of justice," still faces pending sexual assault charges in Canada.
- Prosecutors said that Chasing Horse used his status as a Lakota medicine man to prey on vulnerable Indigenous women and girls for nearly two decades.
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