Poster movie

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

Documentary

Lenguage:57 min

Duration:en

Release date:Apr 30, 2021

Calificacion:0.0

Description:

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.

Cast

Jack Marr
Jack MarrSelf - John P. Harrington's assistant
Kathryn Klar
Kathryn KlarSelf - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
Ernestine DeSoto
Ernestine DeSotoSelf - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
Gertrude Van Fleet-DashSelf - Mojave Elder
David Oechsner
David OechsnerSelf - Fort Mojave Tribe
Leanne Hinton
Leanne HintonSelf - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
Richard Applegate
Richard ApplegateSelf - Linguist
Nora McDowell
Nora McDowellSelf - Fort Mojave Tribe
Nakia Zavala
Nakia ZavalaSelf - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Frank Dominguez
Frank DominguezSelf - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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