A'aninin Native American anthropologist and writer
George P. Horse Capture
Nay Gyagya Nee ("Spotted Otter")
Born
George Paul Horse Capture
(1937-10-20)October 20, 1937
Fort Belknap Agency, Montana
Died
April 16, 2013(2013-04-16) (aged 75)
Great Falls, Montana
Resting place
Fort Belknap Agency Cemetery
Nationality
Fort Belknap Indian Community, American
Other names
"Grandpa Braids", Butch, George Capture
Education
Bachelor's degree, anthropology, Master's degree, history
Alma mater
Butte High School, University of California, Berkeley, Montana State University
Occupation(s)
Anthropologist, activist, museum curator, professor of American Indian Studies, shipfitter, welder
Employer(s)
National Museum of the American Indian, Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Montana State University
Known for
Participation in the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island; one of the first Native American museum curators
Spouse(s)
Vera Capture, KayKarol Horse Capture
Children
George Jr., Joseph, Daylight and Peter
Parent(s)
Joseph Horse Capture and Carmen Falcon Deane; stepfather, Peter Deane
Awards
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Montana State University-Bozeman; Humanities Award, Montana Committee of the Humanities; Presidential Appointee to the National Museum Services Board; member of the Montana Committee for the Humanities; Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, 1990
George Paul Horse Capture (October 20, 1937 – April 16, 2013) (A'aninin) was an anthropologist, activist, and writer.
Horse Capture was one of the earlier Native Americans to be a museum curator. He was the first curator of the Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and worked for a decade at the National Museum of the American Indian, during planning for its new building on the Mall in Washington, DC. He was an enrolled member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana.
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