Self Proclaimed Medicine Man, Nathan Chasing Horse used deceptions: Podcast delay

This was my experience in confronting Nathan Chasing Horse in 2007. He had no compassion for his victims. His propensity for girls started being more openly displayed by the summer of 2007. Documentaries, Articles, Indigenous Podcasts, My Podcast is under construction. Archival documenting yearly posts posted with transcripts will be published here. I’ll also link my YouTube videos associated with each podcast published. I also created a link to my GOFUNDME account. I may link my TikTok account

Sunday 6 August 2023

Podcast delay

I think everyone is happy this part of wrapping up my blog on Nathan Chasing Horse is coming to an end. They can hear it in my voice. I was hoping to summarize things via a podcast; however, my producer/editor lost his mother today. I'm grateful to his wife & for volunteering their services as they have five years of experience doing podcasts.

I was 54 years old working with my late mother in the ‘Bury My Heart at Wound Knee’ HBO film when I worked with Nathan Chasing His Horse. The reality of it blog was disappointment. Years went by as I hoped at least one of the reported SA to locate police would catch Nathan. Months before Narhan’s arrest three women text me asking to watch out For the news as something big was going to happen. Even with my blog, young women were advocating against the apathy shown by local police authorities within the Treaty 7 territory & provinces.

Systemic racism was around before I was born & it’ll be around when I'm six feet underground. Friends good me I was tenacious all these years not giving up on hoping some young woman would take Nathan to court. I knew from my own experience that was no statute of limitation for SA reports once reported; however, my case took 20 years before I reported my assailant, my rapist. Before my assault when I was 19 years old thirteen older women reported to the RCMP my two rapists were serial rapists & that all thirteen didn't want to press charges. I believe this helped as well as my medical records from the beating I received.

Time heals all wounds & I wanted young to understand that there are hops out there. We are not alone. Fear crippled our grandmothers, our mothers, our aunties, our cousins & all our relatives. It's the reality of how society deems indigenous girls & indigenous women as a chosen gender. Any woman of colour in North America is labelled or chosen to die young. I've beaten the odds. despite there being a Renaissance amongst our youth today many of our youth are dying from drug overdose.

I was ready to let my blog end this past January when Nathan was arrested. Many people called him ‘Nate.’ I called him Nathan 'cause he's old enough to be my sin if I had had children. As an indigenous knowledge keeper, it was the total disrespect I received from his cult followers. I know as Indigenous women we do struggle with mental health issues; however, Nathan manipulated and disrespected so many healthy women. The women who gave him a child were the most abused suffering from PSTD after leaving him.

As I've reflected on these young women he took & those older women who didn't have the common sense to protect their daughters or granddaughter, I say check yourselves. Nathan targeted the most vulnerable girls & women with mental health disorders or effects. In my generation, it was rare to have siblings with FASE or FAS & with Nathan’s age group as well as his parents' age group, especially in the USA. This disorder was rampant. It still is. You see the USA started drinking alcohol & drug abuse a generation before their Canadian counterparts.

I did let the production office of HBO know about Nathan’s behaviour. The movie already wrapped up. Promoting Nathan in that movie set him up for singing & more speaking parts. I felt obligated to voice my concern as I had promoted him & was so disappointed in him. HBO was promoting the Dakota, Lakota & Nakota language groups. Having sing sung in Sioyx was an extra. Sadly, this was after I set Nathan up with at least five ceremonies within my community. This is how quickly I knew I made a mistake about him.

Nathan didn't hurt me, I am an elder then & now. It's was his predatorial behaviour in how he stalked his victims. He was swift & he was methodical. Before the movie was shown in a theatre in downtown Calgary he had SA so many girls. As stories come out about his sexual appetite for girls, it's also how his followers enable his cruel perverse behaviour. I believe it's this enabling why he was able to instruct his wives to kill police if he should ever be taken alive. It's why his follower are making death threats to anyone who reports Nathan’s crimes.

I know, it's the longer an individual continues their crimes many will not believe his victims. It's why so many women were not believes for decades until PTSD was researcher. So, again as I've done within my blog I repeat. If you were a victim of Nathan’s & if you reported him to your police authority take it to your police cimmussiinwe’s office. I did when my case went no where. It's why I started this blog. Courage takes many forms & each step taken is a step forward in fighting & healing from white supremacy. As I said earlier, we were born into this racist society that tries & continues to try killing us indigenous peoples off this earth. Earth we see as a living being.

Yes, people can hear it in my voice. It's called relief. I'm so grateful for all those young ladies who hear me & respect me. Respect I haven't felt in decades from some of my own family & for some of own community. I am not afraid to be an elder indigenous woman. I've walked this road knowing people are depending in me.

Wopida Mitakuye Oyasin

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Memories of my late mother saying her dad, my grandfather taught her in a warning that the Dakota Medicine was good, but not anymore. As far back as 81 years ago, fake medicine people deceived their own people for money, power, and glory. Our grandmothers showed us through their prayers helping us celebrate love and helping us celebrate life within our families. Through my own lived experiences, I had to eliminate my own self-defeating behavior. Our people are depending on us to bring justice into our Indigenous Communities. Our Indigenous girls and women are going missing at an alarming rate and are being human trafficked. With little help in finding them or bringing their killers or abusers to justice, I started this blog. I never thought I would live to see such as year as 2023. Today, I feel blessed to be able to hold those who reached out to me in high regard. I am truly grateful, Creator’s Will guided me in my lifetime to see Nathan Chasing Horse arrested. And, yet at the same time, I grief for all his victims who died before they could see him brought to justice.

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Intergenerational truama further perpetuated.

It was a HBO movie set I first met Nathan Chasing Horse. I worked along side my late mother who was literate in Dakota. We didn’t spend too much time with him as he knew how to somewhat speak Lakota. Mostly we were around Actors like Adam Beach and Eric Schweig teaching them the proper pronunciations. My first impression of him was not that of an actor rather that of an indigenous young man with many ex-girlfriends. I ignored his arrogance as I managed my way through being a consultant on behalf of my later mother for the Director and the executive producers of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Micheal Spears was stopped at the Canadian border so his role needed to be filled and since Nathan Chasing Horse was available he auditioned for the part with my mother speaking Dakota to him. The original intention of the movie was to have most of the dialogue in Lakota; however, as production started only few dialogues were kept. The Sioux culture needed representation. I advised them that the songs sung in Lakota would add a difference to the lack of dialogue and they agreed. I suggested they use Nathan’s singing ability and his ability to pronounce Lakota correctly as an asset. Prior to this Nathan was only hired as a stand-in as a Sioux Jailer for Sioux prisoners, nothing more and nothing less. It was in the fall of 2006. Nathan made connections with my younger brother and my oldest niece whom I took on the movie set. My brother started promoting Nathan in the schools and asked if I could help connect him with others within my community. From the ending of the movie in November of 2006 until March 2007, Nathan, and his entourage of three men left. During this time, I reached out to my friends who were having problems with the daughters. We met and hatched a plan to raise money for the mother’s and their daughters to attend Yuwipi, sweats and Sundance. It was the trip to the Sundance in Wolf Point that would cost the most. We tried to fund raise that turned out to be a disaster; however, once members of my community met and supported Nathan the money for the Yuwipi and Sweats were found, but not the Sundance; however, my younger brother was helped with Nathan and his entourage for his Sundance in the summer of 2007. Our ancestors carried within them intergenerational trauma that was further perpetuated in the creations of Indian Residential Schools. It’s a dark place of racism and genocide. Much of what I’ve written about pertains to sexual deviancy. I basically thought the 12-step programs of AA, Al-Anon, Sex Addiction and other 12-step programs helped. As we’ve all grown up around family violence; I’ve met many men who were exposed to such extreme violence. Much I write about here is focusing on is Limerence, because of intergenerational trauma. As the Yuwipi focuses on Limerence practices and I believe was once good. I’ve found as more and more non-indigenous people and indigenous people seek out by cultural appropriation through exploitation. Culturally appropriating our sweats and ceremonies doesn't mean you are healed or that you are automatically adopted into an Indigenous way of knowing. Being around indigenous communities isn't a place to hide your disorders rather it needs to be a place of communities like AA, Al-non and other 12-step programs. There’s no magic wand nor some psychic Psyche who can conjure up a quick fix. It takes time and a lot of hard emotional work. It's just sad that our own people are predators to our own girls and women. I was born into such a way of thinking, and I don’t blame anyone. I’ve learned we as human beings have more in common than our differences. This need for validation and acceptance is as old as time itself, so be kind to yourself and love the person you discover within yourself.

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