The problem with properly relaying history, is that there is no way to know what the true facts are because the stories have changed over time. Textbooks are supposed to be factual and our primary resources, but they are becoming fictional stories, ruining students’ education. The more teachers use this misinformation, the harder it will be for students to differentiate the correct facts in the future. A student cannot leave a history class today and be confident that they were taught properly. Although I agree with Loewen’s arguments of the improper facts in textbooks being important to correct, I believe all of America including Historians need to change the way history is taught; it is incorrect and causing the real facts to be hidden. Thanksgiving has always been taught as happy times and a celebration. This is why today we get together, eat turkey, and share what we are thankful for, just like the Pilgrims and the Indians did, so we thought. In reality, the Indians were forced to live on reservations and their children were taught the ways of the “white people." Instead of joining together and celebrating Thanksgiving, the leader of Wampanoag, Frank James, refused to give his speech at the annual Thanksgiving dinner at Plymouth. From our first history lesson in elementary school, we were taught that the Indians were friendly guests of the Pilgrims, making this inaccurate story a familiar schoolroom classic. Today, some Native American Indians do not “celebrate” Thanksgiving Day; instead they refer to it as a day of mourning. Most of America does not know that the history as they know it, is flawed. “Five-sixths of all Americans never take a course in American history beyond high school. What our citizens 'learn' in high school forms much of what they know about our past" (Loewen p 389). With our high school American history textbooks containing misinformation, it translates into the fact that majority of high school g