The road to reconciliation: where we're at with the calls to action in northern Ontario

Lina Dokis Gagnon doesn't remember hearing much about Indigenous people when she was in high school. 

"Nothing much was discussed about. I never learned anything about my culture within the school setting, I always learned it from my family," she says.

Now an Indigenous support worker at St. Charles College in Sudbury, she says that's changed.

Incorporating Indigenous studies into all school curricula is one of the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission generally seen as being completed. 

There is another call for publicly funded Catholic schools to be required to teach Indigenous spirituality which Dokis Gagnon says is still left up to the discretion of individual teachers. 

"They like to integrate it within each other, but of course it always has a certain place and time," says the member of Dokis first Nation.

She would like to see more staff hired to support students at the high school, where some 700 of the 1,300 teenagers self-identify as Indigenous.