Arrest warrant issued from the Tribal Court
The Fort Peck Tribal Court issued an arrest warrant for Nathan Chasing Horse, charging him with sexually assaulting two girls in 2005.
The warrant, issued to all police on the reservation, was signed Friday, February 10, 2023, by Chief Judge Stacie Fourstar and commands all police officers to arrest Chasing Horse.
Tribal Criminal Investigator Kenny Trottier said two women came forward after news of Chasing Horse being arrested circulated in the community. The women were with Chasing Horse in 2005, at the time one was 15 years old, and the other was 13 years old.
After it was reported, it took another two years of investigation before the report was submitted to the US Attorney’s Office in Great Falls. It was declined due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Now 16 years later, after learning of his arrest by Las Vegas Police, the two women have come forward and want to testify.
Under Fort Peck Tribal Law, there is no statue of limitations for aggravated child sexual abuse.
Chasing Horse, 46, was arrested after police raided his North Las Vegas home, where he lived with at least six other women he viewed as wives. Women in the United States and Canada accused him of abusing his “spiritual influence” and taking advantage of indigenous girls and families to operate a cult known as “The Circle.”
The alleged victims of Chasing Horse told police he raped them when they were teenagers. Some of the women first met Chasing Horse as children after their families sought him for his supposed “healing powers” he claimed to possess, documents state.
This is the fourth jurisdiction to charge Chasing Horse in connection with his arrest. He is accused of being a sexual predator and using his position as a so-called “medicine man” to gain access to young indigenous girls and their families. He would then subject them to rape and abuse. The State of Nevada police executed the warrant on January 31, 2023, and within days federal authorities charged him with two counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a warrant was issued for Chasing Horse in Canada on February 9, 2023. In this case, authorities at a village in British Columbia, about 20 minutes north of the Washington state border, were notified about someone reporting a “historical sexual assault.”
In Las Vegas, Clark County Prosecutors charged Chasing Horse with felony charges of sexual assault against a child under 16-years-old, sexual assault, child abuse, possession of visual pornography of a child under 16-years-old, and four counts of sex trafficking of an adult. Chasing Horse was also charged with unlawful acts pertaining to a bald or golden eagle, and hunting, trapping, possessing or selling part of a bird of prey, both misdemeanors in Nevada.
The police search of Chasing Horse’s residence uncovered multiple firearms, drugs, a cellphone with pornographic videos of a child, a partially stuffed bald eagle and bald eagle parts, court documents state.
Later, police discovered his wives were given firearm training and preparing for a potential police shoot out. His instructions were to be prepared in case cops showed up and “try to break up the family.” If that failed, Chasing Horse told his wives to take “suicide pills.”
While his arrest and tribal criminal proceedings may likely never happen, mostly due to him being permanently banished from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, it has been issued as part of the larger investigation into Chasing Horse.
In 2015, the Tribal Executive Board voted to permanently ban Chasing Horse from entering the reservation.
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