Basic Info
Release: April 30, 2021
Runtime: 57 min
Status: Released
Videos
Chasing Voices- The Story of John P Harrington 30 sec Trailer (Vimeo)
Chasing Voices- The John Peabody Harrington Story (Vimeo)
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (Vimeo)
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
2021
57 min
Overview
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.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English en
Cast
Jack Marr
Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
Kathryn Klar
Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
Ernestine DeSoto
Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
Self - Mojave Elder
David Oechsner
Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
Leanne Hinton
Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
Richard Applegate
Self - Linguist
Nora McDowell
Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
Nakia Zavala
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Frank Dominguez
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Kathleen Marshall
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Carmen Sandoval
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Crew
Daniel Golding
Director
Daniel Golding
Producer
Francene J. Blythe-Lewis
Executive Producer
Steve Patapoff
Cinematography
Daniel Golding
Cinematography
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