This is basically a synecdoche for one of my dissertation chapters.
I love sophisticated GIS methods, but I learn so much and have some of my best ideas just browsing Google Maps. If you’re not integrating maps into your research, even just a simple scan of the area you’re studying may give you surprising new insights.
Maybe it was to give us hope. Maybe that is what the preacher was looking for, or that preacher probably went home and told his wife, you see all them Indians, man, they had a high hope. And they ate their meatloaf with mashed potatoes and said, man them Indians, I think they gave us $50 in the offering plate because I gave them hope!
Jacob Osceola, Interview with Rosalyn Howard, 1999 (Source)
C.B. Crenshaw 