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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

Movie 2021 Released

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.

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington is a movie first shown in 2021. Runtime is 57 minutes. Status: Released. Genres: Documentary.

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Title details

Type
Movie
Original title
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
Release year
2021
Release date
April 30, 2021
Status
Released
Runtime
57 minutes
Genres
Documentary
Production companies
Hokan Media
Director
Daniel Golding
TMDB
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Official website
www.hokanmedia.com

Cast

J

Jack Marr

Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

K

Kathryn Klar

Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

E

Ernestine DeSoto

Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

G

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash

Self - Mojave Elder

D

David Oechsner

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

L

Leanne Hinton

Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

R

Richard Applegate

Self - Linguist

N

Nora McDowell

Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

N

Nakia Zavala

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

F

Frank Dominguez

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

K

Kathleen Marshall

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

C

Carmen Sandoval

Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

V

Victor Golla

Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State

C

Catherine Callaghan

Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ

Characters

  • Self - John P. Harrington's assistant voiced by Jack Marr
  • Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley voiced by Kathryn Klar
  • Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker voiced by Ernestine DeSoto
  • Self - Mojave Elder voiced by Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
  • Self - Fort Mojave Tribe voiced by David Oechsner
  • Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley voiced by Leanne Hinton
  • Self - Linguist voiced by Richard Applegate
  • Self - Fort Mojave Tribe voiced by Nora McDowell
  • Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash voiced by Nakia Zavala
  • Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash voiced by Frank Dominguez
  • Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash voiced by Kathleen Marshall
  • Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash voiced by Carmen Sandoval
  • Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State voiced by Victor Golla
  • Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ voiced by Catherine Callaghan

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