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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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

0h 57m | PG-13

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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.

Director: Daniel Golding

Studio: Hokan Media

Genre: Documentary

Video: 720p

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Cast

Jack Marr

Jack Marr

as Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

Kathryn Klar

Kathryn Klar

as Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

Ernestine DeSoto

Ernestine DeSoto

as Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

as Self - Mojave Elder

David Oechsner

David Oechsner

as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

Leanne Hinton

Leanne Hinton

as Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley