Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
- 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.
Release Date : 2021-04-30
Language :English
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Status : Released
Production Company : Hokan Media
Production Country : United States of America
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Cast
Character Name : Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
Original Name : Jack Marr
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
Original Name : Kathryn Klar
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
Original Name : Ernestine DeSoto
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Mojave Elder
Original Name : Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
Original Name : David Oechsner
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
Original Name : Leanne Hinton
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Linguist
Original Name : Richard Applegate
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
Original Name : Nora McDowell
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Original Name : Nakia Zavala
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Original Name : Frank Dominguez
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Original Name : Kathleen Marshall
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Original Name : Carmen Sandoval
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State
Original Name : Victor Golla
Gender : Male
Character Name : Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ
Original Name : Catherine Callaghan
Gender : Male
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