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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.
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Jack Marr
as Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
K.K
Kathryn Klar
as Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
E.D
Ernestine DeSoto
as Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
G.F
Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
as Self - Mojave Elder
D.O
David Oechsner
as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
L.H
Leanne Hinton
as Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
R.A
Richard Applegate
as Self - Linguist
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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington(2021)
April 30, 2021 · 57m
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.
J.M
Jack Marr
as Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
K.K
Kathryn Klar
as Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
E.D
Ernestine DeSoto
as Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
G.F
Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
as Self - Mojave Elder
D.O
David Oechsner
as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
L.H
Leanne Hinton
as Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
R.A
Richard Applegate
as Self - Linguist
