CHASING VOICES: THE STORY OF JOHN PEABODY HARRINGTON
"The Story of John Peabody Harrington"
Directed by Daniel Golding
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.
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
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- ✓people who enjoy learning through film
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- –those seeking nonstop action
- –those looking for narrative fiction
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