"Dances With Wolves" actor sentenced to life for sexual assaults
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Nathan Chasing Horse, the former actor known for his role in Dances With Wolves, was sentenced to life in prison Monday for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls—closing a yearslong prosecution that has reverberated across Indian Country and tested…
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Nathan Chasing Horse, the former actor known for his role in Dances With Wolves, was sentenced to life in prison Monday for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls—closing a yearslong prosecution that has reverberated across Indian Country and tested…
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