Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
2021, English. Directed by Daniel Golding.
The Story of John Peabody Harrington
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 57m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
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- Daniel GoldingDirector
- 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
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- Released
- 30 April 2021
- Country
- United States of America
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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021) was directed by Daniel Golding and stars Jack Marr, Kathryn Klar, Ernestine DeSoto.