Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021)

N/A 57 min Movie
Documentary

The Story of John Peabody Harrington

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. Harrington amassed over a million pages of notes on over 150 different tribal languages. Some of these languages were considered dead until his notes were discovered. Today tribes are accessing the notes, reviving their once dormant languages, and bringing together a new generation of language learners in the hope of saving Native languages.

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Cast

Jack Marr Jack Marr Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
Kathryn Klar Kathryn Klar Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
Ernestine DeSoto Ernestine DeSoto Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash Self - Mojave Elder
David Oechsner David Oechsner Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
Leanne Hinton Leanne Hinton Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
Richard Applegate Richard Applegate Self - Linguist
Nora McDowell Nora McDowell Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
Nakia Zavala Nakia Zavala Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Frank Dominguez Frank Dominguez Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Kathleen Marshall Kathleen Marshall Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Carmen Sandoval Carmen Sandoval Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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