Northern Lights College honours Indigenous students with graduation ceremony

By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — For one convocation ceremony in Fort St. John, colonialism was replaced with pan-Indigenous culture. Caps and gowns were replaced with Métis sashes and commemorative feather carvings, as Northern Lights College (NLC) honoured its First Nations and Métis students with a graduation celebration and dinner at the Fort St. John Curling Club. It was a special moment for graduate Destiny Laprete. Laprete completed the Adult Dogwood, the B.C. certification for high school equivalency. A member of Enoch Cree Nation, Laprete was the valedictorian of her class at NLC’s Dawson Creek campus. “I got to participate in a lot of Indigenous cultural events throughout the year. I think [it] really made me get back in touch with myself and…

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