Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

IMDb 0.0 2021 • 57 min • Documentary

Director

Daniel Golding

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

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