Who Are Your Humanities Heroes?

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Permalink Reply by Ken Stolz on February 12, 2012 at 6:26pm

A Humanities Hero

Jim Heckel is a retired Great Falls Public Librarian. He has long been a champion of civil liberties and civil discourse.  He fought attempts by the federal government to gain access to public library checkout lists and other provisions of the Patriot Act on the grounds that they infringed on privacy.  In his years in Great Falls he initiated internet connectivity and public computer use and established a foreign film program.  He was a 1996 winner of the Montana Library Association's Pat Williams Intellectual Freedom Award.  He has served on many local and statewide boards, including Humanities Montana, the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana, and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Board of Directors.

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Permalink Reply by Ken Stolz on February 21, 2012 at 6:12pm

A Humanities Hero

George Horse Capture speaks to the audience at the Ursuline Centre in Great Falls after he is presented with his Humanities Hero award on January 26th. George has devoted his life to studying, preserving, and sharing the traditional culture and heritage of Plains Indian peoples. He has devoted his considerable talents to a variety of educational endeavors, but focusing on the museum arena. He serv...ed as the curator of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, before joining the staff of the National Museum of the American Indian. There, Horse Capture played a central role in establishing a new home for that institution on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Horse Capture then returned to his native Montana, where he completed his lifelong effort to locate and assemble an extensive database of information on his tribe, the A’aninin Gros Ventre of Montana. He has remained active in the museum field as a consultant and board member of the Montana Historical Society.

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