Loewen and Alexie both address issues of feigned or obscured morality in their texts. In chapter four Loewen notes, "...forgetting just who taught the Pilgrims to farm in the first place, our culture and our textbooks still stereotype Native Americans as roaming primitive hunting folk, hence unfortunate victims of progress" (130). Such interpretive manipulation of historical fact preserves a long withstanding heroification and idealization of white European Americans which is nothing short of cultural indoctrination.

Alexie pokes fun at the sardonically empty vessel of white religion in his poem, "How to Remodel the Interior of a Catholic Church." He writes, Half of the original pews should face east while the rest face west./The parishioners will be performers./ God loves a circus which loves itself" (85). Such an ironic depiction of broken church unity, quarrelsome congregation members, and sensationalized clergymen leads the reader to view the tension and hypocrisy present here for exactly what it is. Loewen's abrupt language serves the same purpose in his text. Reading these two authors together has allowed me to explore various often antithetical perspectives in relation to a certain event or happening. The revelations which have arisen as a result of this training have been invaluable.