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
