Dances With Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse has been charged with new intercourse crimes in Canada within the newest legal case introduced in opposition to him.

Chasing Horse, 47, stays in jail in Las Vegas as he awaits trial in a sexual abuse case.

He is greatest recognized for his function because the younger Sioux tribe member Smiles A Lot in Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning 1990 movie, Dances With Wolves.

Tsuut'ina Nation Police Service Sergeant Nancy Farmer stated Chasing Horse faces 9 fees in Alberta, together with three counts of sexual exploitation and 4 counts of sexual assault.

The crimes of their jurisdiction date again to 2005, she added.

At a digital news convention on Wednesday, she acknowledged that the Alberta case is essentially symbolic, as Chasing Horse might by no means return to Canada to face the fees.

But Sgt Farmer stated: "At the end of the day, it is important for us to have these warrants in the system so our victims know they've been heard.

"It's extraordinarily necessary that we proceed to help them that approach."

Chasing Horse's public defender in Las Vegas, Kristy Holston, stated she has no touch upon the brand new fees.

It was not instantly clear whether or not Chasing Horse has a lawyer in Canada who might touch upon his behalf.

Chasing Horse faces not solely many years in a Nevada jail if convicted within the Las Vegas case however legal prosecution in a complete of 5 jurisdictions.

He was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, dwelling to the Sicangu Sioux, one of many seven tribes of the Lakota nation.

After starring in Dances With Wolves in 1990, Chasing Horse made a reputation for himself amongst tribes within the US and Canada as a self-proclaimed drugs man who claimed he might talk with increased beings.

Police and prosecutors in Las Vegas have accused him of utilizing that place to steer a cult, acquire entry to weak Indigenous girls and women, and take underage wives from the early 2000s onwards.

In the Las Vegas case, he's charged with 18 felonies that embrace sexual assault of a minor, baby abuse and kidnapping.

He additionally faces legal prosecution within the British Columbia village of Keremeos, the US District Court in Nevada, and on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana.

Court proceedings within the Las Vegas case have been placed on maintain indefinitely as Chasing Horse awaits a choice on his enchantment filed final month to the Nevada Supreme Court asking for his indictment to be thrown out.

Chasing Horse and his public defenders have stated in authorized filings that his accusers needed to have intercourse with him.

One of the ladies was youthful than 16 - the age of consent in Nevada - when she says Chasing Horse started abusing her.