It is an amazingly enlightening book on the false history we are all taught. Even as a Canadian, I harken back to the pilgrim thanksgiving ceremonies we were made to participate in as a 5-year-old with shame and revulsion. I dare even admit that I had some racist views toward native peoples as a youth, which I would love to blame on the lies I was taught about the natives and their place in history in school. I always thought "why should we have to give them special treatment when they never personally owned anything that we never personally stole?" But what I was an ignorant fool about at that time was what a lie the picture painted in my textbooks was, how unbelievably racist and egregious and appalling and widespread and endless the slaughter, torture, and enslavement of the natives was, and how the people of the time and their progeny actually wiped the truth clean in order to preserve the heart-warming lie that the world keeps on slowly getting better and less racist and more inclusive.

Did you know that shortly after the civil war, there was a white congressman in the south that married a black woman and was re-elected? That couldn't happen in many of those southern areas even today, not to mention the shocking amount of segregation and national racism that existed in the 60s which was all abolished by Lincoln (and re-instated of course by Wilson). In the 1870s Grant was crushing the KKK, and in the 1920s Warren G. Harding was being inducted as an official member in the green room of the white house.

I could go on and on, but you might as well just read this excellent book. Once you're done being electrocuted by reality, I strongly recommend you download (or purchase) the audio lecture series Rethinking Our Past (given by the passionate and captivating Loewen himself).