Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021)
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.
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody HarringtonDocumentary
Cast
- Jack Marr — Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
- Kathryn Klar — Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
- Ernestine DeSoto — Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
- Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash — Self - Mojave Elder
- David Oechsner — Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
- Leanne Hinton — Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
- Richard Applegate — Self - Linguist
- Nora McDowell — Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
- Nakia Zavala — Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
- Frank Dominguez — Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
- Kathleen Marshall — Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
- Carmen Sandoval — Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Where to watch Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
PBS, Kanopy
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