This thread has been a long time coming.
His website:
http://www.pipehome.com/Since 2010, it's been publicly discussed that in '07 Mr. Chasing Horse signed a Park Service permit so pretendian fraud Steve McCullough could hold his plastic sun dance on land where only Natives are allowed to do this.
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1245.msg23775#msg23775For at least that long, word has been spreading in NDN country that Mr. Chasing Horse is at best a womanizer and at worst... that there are some serious sexual and financial abuses going on in his circle. There has also been talk of him keeping a "harem" of very young women and today we received some information that it's far worse than we knew. There are now direct, credible reports that he is demanding sex with followers, some of them underage or married, and that he is demanding that people in his circle tithe monthly amounts to support him, in some cases thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per person per year.
If you google "Nathan Chasing Horse" one of the suggested searches that comes up is "nathan chasing horse child support." By all accounts I've seen, including court cases in which he was
convicted, he is also a deadbeat dad, with many children, by many different women, that he does not support.
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http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/man-pleads-guilty-to-infant-assault/article_cd815d45-3dd5-5d00-8d4c-da82ad3bc175.htmlIn 2005, "Nathan Chasing Horse, also known as Nathan Chasing His Horse, 29, South El Monte, Calif., was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Karen Schreier to two years probation for failure to pay legal child support obligations."
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/4965265/chasinghorse And more charges from 2008.
There are several blogs with published accounts of sexual assault allegations. These reports line up with what we are hearing from other sources who have not gone public:
http://kinyewakanwinyan.blogspot.com/ -
http://theworldissmallernowbuyerbeaware.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html -
http://wanonakinyewakan.blogspot.com/Here are two videos that have been posted by a former sundance brother of his, who left Mr. Chasing Horse's fold, along with many others, after seeing what he and others describe as Chasing Horse's abuse of women. The videos are public, but you will probably have to be signed in to Facebook to view them.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152999337072250&pnref=storyhttps://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152999343322250&set=vb.510212249&type=2& Apparently Mr. Chasing Horse, an actor who played the likable character "Smiles a Lot" in the movie "Dances with Wolves," is quite charismatic and those who know him say he is skilled at manipulating people. There are some horrific reports, and survivors are referring to his group, of over 100 people, as a cult. I am told he primarily recruits spiritually vulnerable people who have Indigenous blood, but who lack a cultural connection and are looking for Native ceremony and community.
Though he tells his followers, and the press, that he's a traditional Lakota holy man, he is not living in any Lakota community. He lived for a long time in California, and has more recently relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevada's sex laws are looser than surrounding states and not always enforced. Prostitution is legal, the age of consent is lower than it is in California (16, as opposed to 18), and the state has a bit of a reputation for not prosecuting polygamists/bigamists. In my opinion, what we are seeing here looks more like an abusive polygamous compound situation, with religion abused to frighten and keep people in line, rather than anything spiritual or NDN.
