Actor from 1990's Dances With Wolves film gets life imprisonment for sexual assault

Nathan Chasing Horse, onetime actor from Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves film adaptation from 1990, has been jailed for life for sexual violence:

A Nevada judge sentenced “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse on Monday to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.

A jury had previously convicted him of 13 charges, mostly related to sexual assault of three women.

Accusers and their families told Judge Jessica Peterson they continue to suffer from the trauma caused by Chasing Horse, 49, and struggle with their faith after he exploited his position as a spiritual leader.

“There is no way to get back the youth, the childhood loss, my first time, my first kiss, the graduation I never got to have,” said Corena Leone-LaCroix, who was 14 when Chasing Horse assaulted her. “The life that little girl could have lived has been taken from me forever.”

The Associated Press typically does not use the name of alleged sexual assault victims unless they come forward publicly, as Leone-LaCroix has.

It'll be very difficult now to watch the adaptation of the novel Dances With Wolves was based upon. Perhaps that's why it pays more to read the original book instead?