Sara Jumping Eagle grew up on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, one of many poorest counties within the US. She graduated from Stanford Medical Faculty and returned to the reservation to assist the Lakota individuals as a pediatrician and activist.
Now 50, Leaping Eagle by no means anticipated to wind up on a busy avenue in Santa Monica final month — in a bodily brawl with “The Flash” star Ezra Miller, 29. However she believes that the troubled Hollywood superhero has brainwashed, assaulted and presumably drugged her 18-year-old daughter, Tokata Iron Eyes, after grooming the lady for years. Miller is now touring with Tokata and a number of other different younger ladies in California, she informed The Put up.
“He’s not letting Tokata or the opposite ladies bathe or put on make-up,” Leaping Eagle claimed to The Put up. “They must ask his permission. It’s an R. Kelly sort scenario and it’s very scary.”
Leaping Eagle and her husband, legal professional and Native American activist Chase Iron Eyes, 44, say Miller’s poisonous conduct consists of the appropriation of Native beliefs. She informed The Put up that Miller, the New Jersey-born youngster of a Manhattan writer and his actress spouse, even lectured them on what sort of Lakota drugs man her household ought to use.
“Like this man is aware of s–t about what he’s speaking about,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. “Telling us what to do in our personal tradition?”
Leaping Eagle mentioned she is glad the grandmother who raised her, Juanita White Eyes, is now not round to see what’s occurred to Tokata.
“#EzraMiller is [a] religious voyeur dabbling in varied indigenous peoples’ religious beliefs, combining w voodoo; utilizing these beliefs [in] Tokata Iron Eyes thoughts, luring extra individuals in cult-like method,” Leaping Eagle tweeted last week.
The “Justice League” star was arrested in March in Hawaii for disorderly conduct and later pled no contest. Miller, who makes use of them/they pronouns, was additionally accused of allegedly throwing a chair at a lady and being the subject of 10 911 calls in lower than a month in Hawaii. They had been caught on video apparently choking a woman in Reykjavik, Iceland, on April 1.
Tokata, who has known as Miller her “comrade” on social media, was in Hawaii with the actor once they had been arrested.
Leaping Eagle and her husband each flew to Los Angeles from Pine Ridge in late Might to, they are saying, rescue Tokata, who’s additionally an activist, from what they describe because the “cult-like” grip of Miller.
Calls and emails from The Put up to Miller, the actor’s mother and father, Miller’s agent at CAA, Warner Bros. and Tokata herself went unanswered. Tokata posted a video on Instagram Thursday defending herself towards accusations she is being managed by Miller.
“It’s no person’s enterprise and no person is owed a narrative or end result,” she mentioned within the two-minute video. “That is my life and these are my determination and I’m disillusioned in my mother and father and the press — in each manner. “
Tokata dropped out of a personal highschool in Massachusetts in December, her mother and father mentioned, to dwell with Miller in Vermont and go on street journeys with them everywhere in the nation. She has not had a cellphone since January 2022, by her own admission. Her mother and father failed to influence her to go away the actor in LA, nonetheless, and returned to Pine Ridge with out her.
However earlier than they left, Leaping Eagle mentioned that she filed a police report about what she known as Miller’s assault of her on the road. (She confirmed The Put up images of bruises she claimed had been inflicted by the actor throughout the skirmish.) The couple additionally went to the Warner Bros.’ headquarters in Burbank to strain the corporate to do one thing about its “The Flash” star. The Put up didn’t hear again from the Santa Monica Police Division about whether or not a police report had been filed.
In court documents filed in Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Court docket final week, the couple allege that Miller, 29, “makes use of violence, intimidation, menace of violence, worry, paranoia, delusions and medicines to carry sway over a younger adolescent Tokata.” Each Leaping Eagle and Iron Eyes have tweeted out frantic cries for help for his or her daughter in latest days.
The tribal courtroom has issued an order of safety towards Ezra on behalf of Tokata. A listening to is ready for subsequent month.
Tokata was round 9 years previous in Nov. 2012 when Miller, then 19, got here on a fact-finding mission to a uranium-mining area of the Black Hills in South Dakota that the Lakota contemplate a sacred website.
Miller returned in 2016, when Tokata was 12, to take part within the #NoDAPL protest on the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, together with celebrities together with Mark Ruffalo and Shailene Woodley. Tokata was there, protesting the North Dakota Entry Pipeline alongside her mother and father, when she and Miller first fashioned a friendship, Leaping Eagle mentioned.
By then, Tokata was already thought-about a youth chief and had testified against the mining at the site whereas protesting at quite a few tribal water rights demonstrations.
Tokata proved such an influential activist over time that Angelina Jolie interviewed her for her 2021 e-book, “Know Your Rights and Declare Them.”
Miller flew Tokata out to London, the place the actor was filming “Improbable Beasts and The place to Discover Them,” in 2017. Leaping Eagle mentioned one other household from Standing Rock accompanied Miller and Tokata, so she wasn’t fearful in regards to the journey.
It wasn’t till final week that Tokata’s mother and father, surprised by the latest occasions involving their daughter, started calling round to individuals who knew each Miller and Tokata. Leaping Eagle mentioned she reached out to the household pal who went to London with Tokata and Miller in 2017— and was shocked by what she informed her.
“She mentioned she caught Ezra attempting to sleep in the identical room as Tokata, who was 14 on the time,” Leaping Eagle claimed. “She informed him, Ezra you’ll be able to’t sleep in there along with her’ and stored checking on him the entire time they had been over there.”
However again then Leaping Eagle and her husband had believed that Miller — who identifies as non-binary and queer — was innocent and simply “buddies” with their daughter. Over the subsequent few years, the star and Tokata stored in contact. As soon as Iron Eyes introduced Tokata to New York for a “Respect Our Water” protest after being invited by Miller and others, Leaping Eagle mentioned.
Miller continued to go to the household at Pine Ridge, the place he grew to become infatuated with a neighborhood drugs man named Jasper. On one other event, he informed Tokata’s household he knew a greater drugs individual than theirs. “Are you able to think about that?” Leaping Eagle mentioned. “He thinks he is aware of our tradition higher than us?”
It was Miller who instructed Tokata, who was rising bored on the the Red Cloud Indian School at Pine Ridge, switch in 2020 for her junior yr to Bard Faculty at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts, an accelerated non-public highschool affiliated with Bard, which Miller’s sister attended.
However Tokata ended up dropping out of Simon’s Rock late final yr after an intensified involvement with Miller, Leaping Eagle mentioned. Tokata started spending time at Miller’s Vermont residence with an entourage that included individuals like queer efficiency artist Stella Marbles.
Though each Miller and Tokata say they’re homosexual and presumably transgender, Leaping Eagle mentioned she believes the 2 have been having intercourse for months.
“Ezra’s utilizing ‘they’ pronouns as a result of they don’t need to be labeled a white, privileged male,” Leaping Eagle informed The Put up. “However that’s what Ezra is. Ezra’s gaslighting everybody with the pronouns. What he’s doing with Tokata is R. Kelly sort stuff. However he doesn’t know who he’s f—king with. Tokata has a household who loves her. And also you don’t f–okay with water protectors.”
Though Tokata herself, in addition to Miller’s supporters, have known as Tokata’s mother and father abusive and transphobic, Leaping Eagle says that’s false.
“None of those individuals know us,” she mentioned. “We’ve one other youngster who identifies as non-binary. In our tradition there have at all times been what we name ‘winkte’ or ‘two-spirit’ people who find themselves necessary and revered in our neighborhood.”
Led by Miller, the group took street journeys down South, together with to New Orleans, in addition to to California.
Leaping Eagle mentioned her husband observed Miller’s more and more unusual conduct, saying that the actor calling themselves the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and spoke in regards to the FBI and the KKK following them.
In late January, a pal of Miller’s who doesn’t need to be recognized known as Leaping Eagle and Iron Eyes to say Tokata was in peril on the home in Vermont.
Tokata’s mother and father then went to Miller’s residence in Vermont and mentioned they discovered Tokata in what seemed to be a psychological breakdown.
“She was ranting and babbling and never making sense and Ezra was simply sitting there smirking and snapping his fingers prefer it was all a present,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. Leaping Eagle mentioned Tokata was visibly bruised and believes she was being given marijuana, LSD and ketamine.
Tokata’s mother and father succeeded in bringing her again to Pine Ridge, the place they took her to their drugs man and to a sweat lodge to detox. They prayed Lakota prayers, Leaping Eagle mentioned.
“I stored telling Tokata, you have already got what Ezra and so lots of them are looking for,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. “We pray with the sacred pipe and the religious methods of Lakota individuals and we’ve handed that on to our youngsters.”
Tokata acquired a lot better whereas at residence, her mom mentioned, however finally left once more to return to Miller. When her mother and father heard once more that Tokata was in LA with Miller and their entourage in Might and never doing nicely, they flew out once more to get her on Might 29.
After the Native American couple confronted Miller, Tokata and a few pals at a house in Santa Monica, the group began working down the road.
Leaping Eagle discovered herself finally on busy Lincoln Boulevard the place, she claimed, Miller assaulted her whereas she was attempting to influence Tokata to get out of a automotive and are available residence.
“Ezra was slamming the door on my arms,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. ” I began hollering, Ezra cease!’ The police finally got here however Ezra and Tokata had gone.”
Miller, whose breakout movie was “We Must Speak About Kevin” in 2011, stars as Barry Allen in Warner Bros.’ movie model of DC Comics’ “The Flash.” The film, estimated to value between $100 and $150 million, was postponed from this summer season to June 2023, amid rumors — so far unfounded — that Warner Bros. may substitute Miller due to the actor’s more and more erratic conduct.
“The film appeared able to go,” Jeff Bock, a media analyst at Exhibitor Relations informed The Put up. “The truth that it’s being postponed appears to be solely the results of all this fiddle Ezra Miller. It’s a worst case scenario for a studio that wishes to maneuver forward with what may very well be a three-picture franchise. Relying on what occurs with this case with the younger lady, it may very well be a nightmare for them. Both manner it might be a one-and-done for Ezra. You’ll be able to’t be an enormous film star and act this manner.”
Now, Leaping Eagle and her husband need Warner Bros. to get entangled of their battle.
“Ezra simply retains hurting individuals,” she mentioned. “He’ll in all probability simply drop my daughter finally however what sort of form will she be in when he leaves her? And who’s subsequent?”
