Sadly: twenty-three years later many of the poor uninformed and misinformed children who were instructed in the stereotypical books havent upgraded their information. Today; students who were taught using those textbooks are adults; many are in positions of authority, people with the power to impact upon the lives of First Nations people.

Judges, crown attorneys, police officers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, government officials, journalists and anyone else (including natives) who went to school in Manitoba were all unknowingly schooled in racism.  Bias by omission is a euphemism for racism.  It is racism not by intend but by lack of information. In the introduction the authors warn, "If a student encounters in his studies, material which is derogatory toward a race of people, he will undoubtedly adopt these same attitudes, probably for life." Once ingrained, opinions formed in children are hard to change as they become adults. There has to be some motivation to change that opinion.

In 1983 the Winnipeg Sun, a major Winnipeg newspaper published an opinion by Peter Warren in which he stated, "the average Canadian Indian is a drunk, a wastrel, an idolmonger, a person only too happy to live on a government cheque, an inbreeder, a parasite, a non contributor."  Warren was a long time radio talk show host with CJOB, the highest rated radio talk show in Manitoba. Racism however is rarely blatant, it generally so subtle and pervasive that most individuals dont realize that it is racism. 

In the Shocking Truth about Indians in textbooks, ten criteria was used to evaluate historical information: 

• Bias by Omission: selecting information that reflects credit on only one group, frequently the writers group.
   
• Bias by Defamation: calling attention to the native persons faults rather than his virtues and misrepresenting his nature.
   
• Bias by Disparagement: (disparagement: something that lowers a thing or person in worth or importance): denying or belittling the contributions of native people to Canadian culture.
   
• Bias by Cumulative Implication: constantly creating the impression that only one group is responsible for positive developments.
   
• Bias by (lack of) Validity: failing to ensure that information about issues is always accurate and unambiguous.  (Ambiguous: having more than one possible meaning.)
   
• Bias by Inertia: perpetuation of legends and half-truths by failure to keep abreast of historical scholarship.
   
• Bias by Obliteration: ignoring significant aspects of native history.
   
• Bias by Disembodiment: referring in a casual and depersonalized way to the Indian menace or representing the annihilation of Indian culture as part of the march of progress.
   
• Bias by (lack of) Concreteness: dealing with a race or group in platitudes and generalizations (applying the shortcomings of one individual to a whole group). To be concrete, the material must be factual, objective and realistic.
   
• Bias by (lack of) Comprehensiveness: failing to mention all relevant facts that may help to form the opinion of the student.