Among his early projects were work with Tony Tillohash of the Carlisle Indian School on Southern Paiute, and the book Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture.
His graduate degrees were in German because Columbia didn't have a program in his chosen field at the time. Among his early projects were work with Tony Tillohash of the Carlisle Indian School on Southern Paiute, and the book Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture. His most famous accomplishment, developed with one of his students and set down largely after his death, is the idea that a group's spoken language influences its thinking and culture. For 10 points, name this Polish-American linguist who formulated that idea with his firefighter student, Benjamin Whorf.
His graduate degrees were in German because Columbia didn't have a program in his chosen field at the time.
Edward {Sapir}