George Paul Horse Capture (October 20, 1937 – April 16, 2013) (A'aninin) was an anthropologist, activist, and writer.
George Horse Capture was born into the A'aninin (Gros Ventre) in a log cabin in Fort Belknap, which is located in north-central Montana, near Harlem.
George worked closely with Indian tribes throughout the Northern Plains insuring that their voices were heard in a museum setting.
[3] In 1994, Horse Capture was selected as the Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.
He worked at NMAI for 10 years, helping to develop the new museum to be built on the Mall in Washington, DC.
"[7] In 2005, he organized a conference at the University of Great Falls, "American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."
Horse Capture spent his entire professional life gathering materials about his tribe, the A'aninin.
With this material, he created the Tribal Archive Project, "a database that includes information from worldwide museum sources about the A'aninin.