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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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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…

DirectorDaniel Golding
ProducersDaniel Golding·Francene J. Blythe-Lewis

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Cast · Directed by Daniel Golding

JM
Jack Marr
Self - John P. Harrington's assistant
KK
Kathryn Klar
Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley
ED
Ernestine DeSoto
Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker
GF
Gertrude Van Fleet-Dash
Self - Mojave Elder
DO
David Oechsner
Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
LH
Leanne Hinton
Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley
RA
Richard Applegate
Self - Linguist
NM
Nora McDowell
Self - Fort Mojave Tribe
NZ
Nakia Zavala
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
FD
Frank Dominguez
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
KM
Kathleen Marshall
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
CS
Carmen Sandoval
Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington is streaming on PBS and Kanopy in United States. It's not currently on Netflix.

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No, Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington is not on Netflix in United States as of September 2026. It's currently on PBS and Kanopy.

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No, Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington isn't on Amazon Prime Video in United States right now. It's on PBS and Kanopy instead.

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Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington is available to stream free (with ads) on Kanopy in United States.