Chasing Voices

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. While Harrington documented Native languages across the country, this film ultimately centers on Native communities who are using those records to reclaim language, strengthen cultural identity, and empower a new generation of speakers.

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