Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

Documentary 2021 · 57m

The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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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.

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14 people

J Jack Marr Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

K Kathryn Klar Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

E Ernestine DeSoto Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

G Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash Self - Mojave Elder

D David Oechsner Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

L Leanne Hinton Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

R Richard Applegate Self - Linguist

N Nora McDowell Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

N Nakia Zavala Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

F Frank Dominguez Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

K Kathleen Marshall Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

C Carmen Sandoval Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

V Victor Golla Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State

C Catherine Callaghan Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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