Film

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington 2021

57 min 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.

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Cast

  • Jack Marr as Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
  • Kathryn Klar as Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
  • Ernestine DeSoto as Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
  • Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash as Self - Mojave Elder
  • David Oechsner as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
  • Leanne Hinton as Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

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