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

Name: Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-04-30
Cast: Jack Marr, Kathryn Klar, Ernestine DeSoto, Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash, David Oechsner

The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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.

Release date: April 30, 2021
Runtime: 57m
Language: English
Director: Daniel Golding
Status: Released

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Jack MarrSelf - John P. Harrington's assistant
Kathryn KlarSelf - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
Ernestine DeSotoSelf - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
Gertrude Van Fleet-DashSelf - Mojave Elder
David OechsnerSelf - Fort Mojave Tribe
Leanne HintonSelf - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
Richard ApplegateSelf - Linguist
Nora McDowellSelf - Fort Mojave Tribe
Nakia ZavalaSelf - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Frank DominguezSelf - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Kathleen MarshallSelf - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Carmen SandovalSelf - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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

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