Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

0.0

0 hr 57 min

2021-04-30

0

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.

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Jack Marr

Jack Marr

Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

Kathryn Klar

Kathryn Klar

Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

Ernestine DeSoto

Ernestine DeSoto

Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Self - Mojave Elder

David Oechsner

David Oechsner

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

Leanne Hinton

Leanne Hinton

Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

Similar Movies

The Shaman's Apprentice

2001-05-27

Ceremony

2026-03-14

First Daughter and the Black Snake

2017-04-15

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

2009-11-01

I Stand: The Guardians of the Water

2017-03-15

Tribal Justice

2017-02-05

By Blood

2014-10-18

Inhabitants

2021-03-19

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

1991-11-01

American Native

2014-11-13

Writing the Land

2007-12-31

Simon and the Spirit Bear

2002-12-01

The Lost Spirits

2009-01-01

The Language Master

1997-03-23

Say Her Name

2021-05-05

Mankiller

2017-06-19

Somebody's Daughter

2020-01-15

Sweetheart Dancers

2019-02-23

Omegäng

2024-01-19

Lon Marum

2012-01-01