How to talk to little kids about Thanksgiving, explained by a Native American children's author

Traci Sorell thinks now is as good a time as any to reframe how we talk with young children about Thanksgiving.

She wrote the children's book "We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga” and is a citizen of the Cherokee nation.

Being a children’s book author — and a Native American woman — who writes about gratitude, this is a busy time of year for her going out to schools to talk with groups of children