ADVOCATE FOR EDWARD SAPIR
"... Edward Sapir ... had remarkable insight into which language families were related to one another. At no time did he even vaguely consider any European language family to be even remotely related to any North American language family.
"Sapir's forerunner Franz Boaz, sent students out to document native languages and in the process look for possible connections between Old World and New World languages. None panned out. (Dr. Richard Rhodes, 2004)
