Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

About Chasing Voices: 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.

Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington is a 2021 documentary film directed by Daniel Golding. At 57 minutes long, it arrived in April 2021.

The film is filed under native american and language.

Jack Marr takes the lead as Self - John P. Harrington's assistant, Kathryn Klar as Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley, Ernestine DeSoto as Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker, and Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash as Self - Mojave Elder. American members can watch it on PBS.

It carries a PG rating.