Movie
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021)
The Story of John Peabody Harrington
Documentary
Story
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 Starring: Jack Marr, Kathryn Klar, Ernestine DeSoto, Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington 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
- Richard Applegate as Self - Linguist
- Nora McDowell as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
- Nakia Zavala as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
- Frank Dominguez as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
- Kathleen Marshall as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
- Carmen Sandoval as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
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