Conversation so far:
What is Canada's Geological Survey?
As director of the Anthropological division of the Geological Survey of Canada, Sapir embarked on a project to document the Indigenous cultures.
Around what year was that?
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How did the project turn out?
His first fieldwork took him to Vancouver Island to work on the Nootka language.
Was he successful in this?
Sapir explicitly used the standard of documentation of European languages, to argue that the amassing knowledge of indigenous languages was of paramount importance.
Why did he say that?
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Question: What else did you find interesting about the survey?
Self-contained rewrite: Besides the Nootka language, what else did Edward Sapir accomplish for the Geological Survey?