

30/04/2021
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.

Jack Marr
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

Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
as Self - Mojave Elder

David Oechsner
as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

Leanne Hinton
as Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

Richard Applegate
as Self - Linguist

Nora McDowell
as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

Nakia Zavala
as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

Frank Dominguez
as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

Kathleen Marshall
as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

Carmen Sandoval
as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

Victor Golla
as Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State

Catherine Callaghan
as Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ
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