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  • Sunlight Shining Moments Spotlight: Skateboarding to empower Indigenous youth

    Global News Toronto - The Morning Show - November 9th, 2023

    We continues our Sunlight series with the incredible journey of Cousins Skateboard Community. Discover how their efforts are empowering indigenous youth through skateboarding, and learn how a $10,000 prize from Sunlight is poised to amplify their impact even further.

  • How skateboarding is building community among Indigenous youth

    Emily Fitzpatrick · CBC News Edmonton · Posted: Aug 15, 2023 5:00 PM MDT

    The Alberta Indigenous Games held its first skateboarding competition this week, but the goal of the event goes beyond the podium. For organizers, it’s a chance to create a community and empower Indigenous youth across the province.

  • Community through kickflips: Group using skateboarding to bring Indigenous youth together

    Taylor Simmons · CBC News · Posted: Oct 28, 2022 11:48 AM MDT

    Throughout the summer months, more than a dozen youth from Stoney Nakoda First Nation — about 80 kilometres west of Calgary — gather on a weekly basis to skateboard. In late October's sunny weather, they continued to launch off ramps, grind rails and leap over obstacles when the jumps didn't work out. Along with the clanks on metal and the clattering of flipped boards, the sound of laughter and casual conversation could be heard drifting from the group.

  • Stuart Young captures local skaters utilizing the mobile skatepark his organization, Cousins, won from the City of Calgary. Here, the ramp is set up in the parking lot of local skateboard and snowboard shop, The Source, during a launch of their colla

    How Cousins Skateboard Community is Creating Opportunities for First Nations Youth, One Ollie at a Time

    Avenue Calgary - By Dylan Leeder - September 30, 2022

    Cousins Skateboard Community partners with communities to bring skateboard parks to reserves and empowers youth to build communities around them.

  • Stuart Young (left) and Cousins Skateboarding are giving Indigenous youth a chance to learn the sport in their home communities. (Source: Kevin Green/CTV News)

    'A place where kids can have community': mobile skate park visiting First Nations

    Kevin Green - CTV News Calgary - September 29th, 2022

    A team of Indigenous skateboarders is using the sport to teach youth how to navigate life’s twists and turns.

    The non-profit group 'Cousins Skateboarding' tours Treaty 7 reserves with a mobile skate park, giving kids a chance to develop their skills.

  • Indigenous skateboarding group wins bid to bring mobile skatepark to Alberta youth on reserves

    CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2021 7:49 PM MST

    A group of Indigenous skateboarders who want to bring skateboard facilities to Alberta reserves is thrilled to have won its bid to purchase one of five community mobile skateparks from the city.

  • Group of masked skaters posing for a picture on a skate ramp.

    Indigenous Skateboarders Want To Ramp Up Infrastructure For Youth On Alberta Reserves

    CBC News · Posted Dec 14, 2020 6:01 PM MT

    An Indigenous-led non-profit group called Cousins Skateboard Community has put in bid for mobile skate park equipment from the City of Calgary, in hopes of bringing better infrastructure to Indigenous youth boarders.

  • Indigenous Youth Hope To Use Calgary Mobile Skateboard Park To Change Lives

    Global News Posted December 8, 2020 6:35 pm

    A group of Indigenous skateboarders has launched a new organization designed to bring skate parks to southern Alberta First Nations.