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Tuesday, 5 March 2024

MeToo #JusticeforVictims #EndAbuse


2006 in the Fall was the time I worked with these actors on the HBO movie set Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. My brother invited these indigenous actors to a sweat and barbeque. At this time I was not introduced to Nathans followers until a month later. The reason I am posting these photos is to have you the viewer look at the way Nathan is looking into the camera. The person taking these picture is my niece. By this time Nathan had slept a few time over at my brothers place so knowing now what I know about Nathans propensity for girls, I have no doubt he had already started grooming my 15 year old niece. My niece was not interested in focusing in on any of the other actors, only Nathan. 
2023 was a year of great change. For Nathan Chasing Horse, it was a year of reckoning. Many indigenous professionals were conned and manipulated by his trickery. It will take years to unravel the insane teachings and for his followers to reflect on why they supported such a trickster. As we lead up to May 2, 2024, Nathan's next court update, we cannot forget the girls who grew up into women and found the courage to disclose the abuse they lived through. It was public exposure that brought safety into the community and a space for women to support each other. Together, we stand to ensure that justice is served. #JusticeForVictims #EndAbuse #MeToo  
The two girls in the background are the same age as Ren Leone. In the summer of 2007, Melissa Leone, along with associates of Nathan, stayed at my home. One of these girls is my other niece. I wanted to understand, Nathan manipulated Melissa Leone into thinking her daughter, Ren was a holy child. Now, in Sioux culture, we are raised to believe children are holy, so when Melissa mentioned this to me I found it strange. Melissa was afraid that her husband would find out she had left the country but she needed to investigate ritual and ceremonies of the Sioux people from my understanding. It was not until the fall of 2007 that I saw Ren Leone with Nathan and his associates and her mom Melissa. Understand this, that by this time Nathan already knew I knew about his sexual propensity for girls. I just want you the reader to focus on the two girls in this photo. Here is a 30 year old man, father of 10 children by now, grooming an 8 year old child, Ren. By the fall of 2007, he was so proficient in sexualizing his victims into believing each one was going to be his wife. Understand too, that by this time in the fall of 2007 I contacted the tribal police as Nathan was now back in my community, but nobody believed me or did anything to question Nathan.            

In this photo, I am 54 years old. My late mother is in the background. She was fluent in the Sioux language, meaning she could read and write. I was her liaison in the movie production or her secretarial assistant. I met with all the indigenous actors. I thought Nathan was sleeping over at my brothers to help me with sweats and Sundance ritual and practices. My late mother and I supported my brother road in recovery from alcohol addiction, so we supported Nathan in helping him. Nathan had a non-profit website and had mentioned the many communities he travelled teaching indigenous spirituality to youth. 

For about six months from the last ceremony I setup for Nathan until his Sundance in Montana, Nathan knew. Since I had not heard back from any of the various emails I sent out to get reference from places Nathan said he visited. I went to Fort Peck. I questioned people. Years went by and my contact there helped me or we helped each other try to warn others. Under this my contact was a very strong supporter of Nathan. I do not know what happened that she trusted me but I am grateful she did. 

I hope you will continue to read this blog and this story is not over. 
I would also encourage you to read about the TikTok post I posted under TRUST WITHIN CLOSED SOCIETIES regarding sex trafficking. I posted my photo cause of the extreme depths a predators goes to discredit, manipulate and indoctrinate people into thinking attractiveness holds truth. When it really is the sexual pleasure of what the predator associates or what they perceive as beautiful because it give them pleasure. This disassociation, in my opinion turns a human being into a monster. It dehumanizes a person into a sexual object, a thing that's exists only for ones pleasure. The analogue that an ugly person is only used for or good for sexual pleasure is dehumanizing. I spent decades defending myself. The salacious gossip that I was so infatuated with Nathan that I have spent decades chasing him. I needed to post my picture to let people know I was 54 and he was 30. I am now 72 years old and he is 48. I have met Nathan parents. I am older than them. I have spent my life protecting myself from salacious gossip cause it such a common theme to discredit any indigenous woman or indigenous girl. Society has dehumanized us for centuries. I am very pessimistic about this caste changing in the next five decades.   

When one tries to rescue the victim it has nothing to do with this alure of attractiveness as this attractiveness is only a tool used to manipulate ones perception of reality.  It damages the victim for life.
The process of trying protect children from predators is nothing to what psychology instructors or therapists or social workers claim. It is a very difficult process of establishing trust. Over these decades, so many people wanted to know and so many people did not believe and yet, for all the effort to keep encouraging young women to keep moving forward in their healing journey helped.