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Interviews Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey, a professor of Lakota Studies at the Lower Brule Indian Reservation Community College in South Dakota and a granddaughter of Ella Deloria, the outstanding Yankton Sioux ethnographer and linguist. Godfrey's achievements and awards; Godfrey's educational and career background; Godfrey's interpretation of Deloria's legacy.

The article focuses on the life and works of Edward Sapir, linguist and anthropologist in the U.S. Sapir was regarded as one of the greatest linguists and anthropologists of the 20th century, with his seminal contributions. In addition to his scholarly contributions, Sapir was a poet, a pianist and a composer. Also, Sapir was among the founders of the Conference on Jewish Social Studies Inc., which in 1939 launched the publication of Jewish Social Studies.

This article focuses on cultural reflections on American linguists. The field of linguistics as conceived by the linguists themselves was necessarily inter-disciplinary. The relevant disciplines included ethnology, pure science, history, geology and psychology. There are recognisable groupings of problems which range from characterisations of process and method to working assumptions. Characterisations of "process" which any combination of disciplines might share in any combination of ways include theses of evolutionism, historicism, uniformitarianism, instrumentalism, psychologism, diffusionism and geneticism.