LAS VEGAS, Jan. 31 -- Dances With Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse, once celebrated for his breakout role as Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning 1990 epic, has been convicted by a Nevada jury of sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls - a case that prosecutors say exposed decades of exploitation and sent shock waves through Native communities across the US.

According to ABC News, jurors in Las Vegas found Chasing Horse guilty yesterday on 13 of the 21 charges he faced, most tied to assaults against a victim who was just 14 when the abuse began in 2012.

The panel acquitted him of several other charges involving the same victim when she was older and living in his household. Chasing Horse, now 49, faces a minimum of 25 years in pris...