
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
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
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
Victor Golla
Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State
Catherine Callaghan
Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ
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