Language and Quantum Mechanics: the Hopi Time Controversy

I recently finished Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams. It's a really interesting book which I know inspired Robert Macfarlane. Lopez did a lot of thinking about the relationship of  native people to the land. He is interested in their languages. In the book, he gives an example from the linguistic study of the Hopi language from much further south in Arizona. When he was writing, it was felt that the Hopi language had limited tenses so that there was little concept of past and future. The hypothesis was that they had no concept of time as distinct from space, whereas in English we can tell from the tenses used that there seems to be a linear flow of time from the past to the future. Lopez felt that this would make Hopi a great language for describing Quantum Mechanics. A little poke around on the Internet reveals that the idea has now become very controversial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy It turns out that Benjamin Whorf, who came up with the hypothesis, was influenced by Einstein, so there is some Physics feedback going on here. It looks like an interesting topic for further reading.