LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada grand jury has indicted Nathan Chasing Horse again on charges of sexually abusing Native American women and girls, reviving a wide-ranging criminal case against the former “Dances with Wolves” actor.

The 21-count indictment, unsealed Thursday in Clark County District Court, which includes Las Vegas, expands his previous charges of sexual assault, lewdness and kidnapping to include charges of producing and possessing child sexual abuse material.

It comes after more than a year of delayed legal proceedings, which culminated last month with the Nevada Supreme Court ordering the dismissal of Chasing Horse’s original 18-count indictment. The court sided with Chasing Horse, saying in its scathing order that prosecutors abused the grand jury process. But the court left open the possibility that the charges could be renewed.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson quickly vowed to seek another indictment. Neither Wolfson nor a spokesman for his office immediately responded to phone or emailed requests for comment Thursday.

Best known for portraying the character Smiles A Lot in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota Nation.

After starring in the Oscar-winning film, according to prosecutors, Chasing Horse began supporting himself as a self-proclaimed Lakota medicine man while traveling across North America to perform healing ceremonies.

Prosecutors said his position in the community gave him access to vulnerable women and girls for decades until his arrest in January near Las Vegas. He has since been imprisoned.

Chasing Horse’s arrest reverberated through Indian Country. Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Canada quickly followed up with more criminal charges, saying his arrest helped corroborate longstanding allegations against him, including on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, where tribal leaders expelled Chasing Horse in 2015 amid allegations of people. traffic.

Authorities in Alberta, Canada, have acknowledged that their case is largely symbolic. Chasing Horse — who faces decades in a Nevada prison if convicted — may never return to Canada.

“At the end of the day,” Sgt. Nancy Farmer of the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service said, “It’s important for us to have these warrants in the system so our victims know they’ve been heard. It is extremely important that we continue to support them in this way.”

In Las Vegas, Chasing Horse pleaded not guilty to the original charges. His new attorney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment, and his former public defender, Kristy Holston, said she had no comment on the new indictment.

The latest indictment also accuses Chasing Horse of filming himself having sex with one of his accusers when she was under 14 years old. Prosecutors say the footage, shot in 2010 or 2011, was found on cellphones in a locked safe inside the North Las Vegas home Chasing Horse is said to have shared with five wives, including the girl in the videos.

When the Nevada Supreme Court ordered Chasing Horse’s original indictment dismissed, the justices said they did not consider his guilt or innocence, finding the charges against him serious. But the court said prosecutors improperly provided the grand jury with a definition of caregiving without expert testimony and faulted them for withholding from the grand jury inconsistent statements made by one of his accusers.

Chasing Horse’s legal woes have come at the same time U.S. lawmakers and prosecutors are directing more resources to cases involving Native women, including human trafficking and murder.

— By RIO YAMAT Associated Press