Chasing Voices.
Chasing Voices.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Originally produced by Vision Maker Media in 2021.
CHASING VOICES tells the extraordinary life story of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington. Beginning in 1907, Harrington crisscrossed the United States frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. For the next 50 years, this became his obsession. 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.
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by Vision Maker Media in 2021.
CHASING VOICES tells the extraordinary life story of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington. Beginning in 1907, Harrington crisscrossed the United States frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. For the next 50 years, this became his obsession. 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.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
13070370 Kanopy
Linguistics.
History, Modern.
Indigenous peoples.
History.
Documentary films.
Foreign study.
Social sciences.
Documentary films.