Conversation so far:
What is the Hopi time?
The Hopi time controversy is the academic debate about whether the differences between the ways the English and Hopi languages describe time are an example of linguistic relativity or not.
What was the Hopi language like?
The Hopi language is Uto-Aztecan, more closely related to Nahuatl than to the languages of the other Southwestern pueblos.
Are there any other interesting aspects about Benjamin Lee Whorf and the hopi time controversy?
In popular discourse the debate is often framed as a question about whether the Hopi had a concept of time, despite it now being well established that they do.

Question: Why were his analyses challenged?
Self-contained rewrite: Why were Benjamin Lee Whorf's analyses challenged?