Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021)
"The Story of John Peabody Harrington"
Overview
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.
Top Cast
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Jack Marr
Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
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Kathryn Klar
Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
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Ernestine DeSoto
Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
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Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
Self - Mojave Elder
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David Oechsner
Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
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Leanne Hinton
Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
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Richard Applegate
Self - Linguist
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Nora McDowell
Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
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Nakia Zavala
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
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Frank Dominguez
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
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Kathleen Marshall
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
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Carmen Sandoval
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
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Victor Golla
Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State
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Catherine Callaghan
Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ
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