Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
Documentary

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

"The Story of John Peabody Harrington"

April 30, 2021
57m

Overview

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.

Director: Daniel Golding

Cast

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Jack Marr

Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

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Kathryn Klar

Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

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Ernestine DeSoto

Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

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Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Self - Mojave Elder

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David Oechsner

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

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Leanne Hinton

Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

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Richard Applegate

Self - Linguist

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Nora McDowell

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

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Nakia Zavala

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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Frank Dominguez

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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