Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Jack Marr

Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

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Kathryn Klar

Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

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Ernestine DeSoto

Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

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Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Self - Mojave Elder

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David Oechsner

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

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Leanne Hinton

Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

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Richard Applegate

Self - Linguist

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Nora McDowell

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Daniel Golding
Production	Producer	Daniel Golding
	Executive Producer	Francene J. Blythe-Lewis
Crew	Cinematography	Steve Patapoff Daniel Golding
Sound	Sound	Steve Patapoff Daniel Golding
Editing	Editor	Ruth Schell Daniel Golding
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