Sonoma Survivors Build Their Own Lifeline As Chasing Horse Awaits Sentencing

With Nathan Chasing Horse now weeks away from sentencing, two Sonoma County women who say they survived his alleged abuse have spent years quietly building a grassroots safety net for Indigenous survivors. The projects they launched, a survivor-led nonprofit and a peer-support circle, have helped women line up housing, counseling, and legal guidance while the criminal case moved through Nevada courts.

A Nevada jury convicted Chasing Horse on Jan. 30 on 13 of 21 felony counts, and he is scheduled to be sentenced on March 11. According to AP News, prosecutors say he faces a minimum of 25 years in prison on multiple counts. The verdict followed an 11-day trial in Clark County that featured testimony from survivors and evidence prosecutors say showed a long-running…..

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