In the third chapter, Loewens has described the false notion that has been conveyed by the American textbooks. Loewens in this chapter has said that America did not settle in 1620 as what the majority thinks. The American natives had been residing there for centuries before the English pilgrims entered in North America. Loewen suggests that Thanksgiving is just a myth. The students, however, are taught about how the kind Americans have helped out a minority i.e. the native Indians. But the pilgrims did not introduce the natives to the festivities; in fact, the natives had been celebrating autumn harvest for centuries.
Moreover, the textbook authors have altogether excluded the truth that the Europeans brought diseases to the continent. Due to this, a large number of native people died when they got into contact with those diseases. This decrease in Native Americans population has greatly helped the pilgrims to take over the lands of natives without any resistance. Many historians are of the view that the population reduction and the massacres have originated the Thanksgiving celebrations. After reading the content of this chapter, I would say that by omitting these facts from the textbooks, the authors have tried to hide the atrocities and genocide being done in America.