Film · Documentary
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021)
57 minDocumentary2021
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.
- Director
- Daniel Golding
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- April 30, 2021
Cast
- 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
- Victor GollaSelf - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State
- Catherine CallaghanSelf - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ
