Former child actor and alleged cult leader, Nathan Chasing Horse, reportedly armed his wives with guns and “suicide pills” to use in case police ever attempted to “break their family apart”

Former child actor and alleged cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse reportedly armed his wives with guns and “suicide pills” to use in case police ever attempted to “break their family apart”.

Former child actor and alleged cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse reportedly armed his wives with guns and “suicide pills” to use in case police ever attempted to “break their family apart,” according to new records.

Chasing Horse, who was arrested on sex abuse charges Tuesday, trained his five wives to use firearms and ordered them to “shoot it out” with cops if they came to tear the family apart — or ingest the fatal pills he stockpiled as a backup plan, according to a 50-page search warrant obtained by the Associated Press.

If that failed, the actor - who appeared alongside Kevin Costner - allegedly said they should take "suicide pills".

The 46-year-old star of the Oscar-winning film was yesterday arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting indigenous girls in America.

The alleged abuse, which authorities claim spanned two decades, led to the arrest of Chasing Horse on Tuesday after a months-long investigation by Las Vegas police.

Chasing Horse — known for his role in the 1990 Kevin Costner film “Dances With Wolves” — is accused of sexually assaulting Indigenous girls as young as 14 for roughly two decades.

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SWAT officers raided his north Las Vegas home Tuesday following an investigation dating back to October 2022. Police recovered memory cards containing videos of the alleged sex assaults, multiple firearms, 41 pounds of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms from the home, according to an arrest report.

Investigators said Chasing Horse, 46, used his influence and power among US and Canadian tribes — whose members believed he was a “Medicine Man” and “Holy Person” capable of communicating with higher beings — to prey on young Indigenous girls and create a cult.

“Nathan Chasing Horse used spiritual traditions and their belief system as a tool to sexually assault young girls on numerous occasions,” the search warrant states.

He will be charged with at least two counts of sex trafficking and one count each of sexual assault of a child younger than 16, child abuse or neglect and sexual assault, according to court records. Those charges are still pending.

He also allowed other men to have sex with the victims for a payment and recorded the sexual assaults, investigators alleged.

At least two women in the “The Circle” cult said Chasing Horse had shown them the stash of the “small white pills” between 2019 and 2020 and told them to swallow one to kill themselves if he died or law enforcement intervened.

More than 10 years before his arrest, Chasing Horse was reportedly banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking, drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal leaders.

He was arrested as he left his home which he shares with his five wives in north Las Vegas.

Swat officers were seen outside the two-storey home as detectives searched inside.

During the raid, police allegedly found memory cards containing videos of sexual assaults, firearms and 41lb (18.6kg) of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms, an arrest report released on Wednesday said.

Known for his role as the young Sioux tribe member Smiles A Lot in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film Dances With Wolves (1990), Chasing Horse gained a reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a so-called medicine man who performed healing ceremonies.

But police allege he abused his position, by physically and sexually assaulting Indigenous girls and women, taking underage wives and leading a cult.