Home / Podcast This is Motherhood: Monique Gray Smith on the legacy of native residential schools and raising resilient children “Whenever our dignity is threatened or we don't feel it's upheld, it is a form of trauma.” By Motherly August 16, 2022 Monique Gray Smith This episode is sponsored by Target. Thank you for supporting the brands that support Motherly and mamas. In this episode, Joyce talks with author and consultant Monique Gray Smith about her indigenous children’s books and what motherhood has taught her. She also shares her insight about how best to tell children about the history of Native residential schools and other abuses in a way that is gentle but also ensuinres that future generations know the truth of the traumas their people experienced.