Most American Indians see Thanksgiving as time of mourning

The first European celebration of Thanksgiving in the New World took place in the Spanish-conquered Southwest but it wasn't until a slave-owning US president made the date official.

Larry Salway is a pastor at He Sapa New Life Church, and he says some Natives think of Thanksgiving as a time of mourning. Jonathan Old Horse is a linguistics teacher in the Lakota language. He says when he thinks of Thanksgiving, sometimes he thinks of it as a Native American, with atrocities, but he also thinks of the holiday as an American.

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