Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

The Story of John Peabody Harrington

202157m
Documentary

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.

Crew

DG

Daniel Golding

Director

DG

Daniel Golding

Producer

Cast

JM

Jack Marr

Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

KK

Kathryn Klar

Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

ED

Ernestine DeSoto

Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

GV

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Self - Mojave Elder

DO

David Oechsner

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

LH

Leanne Hinton

Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

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Richard Applegate

Self - Linguist

NM

Nora McDowell

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

NZ

Nakia Zavala

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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Frank Dominguez

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

KM

Kathleen Marshall

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

CS

Carmen Sandoval

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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