Indigenous Skateboarding

We work with Indigenous partners to host programs in their communities that honour culture, empower youth, and increase access to skateboarding. We work seasonally with the White Buffalo Youth Lodge to host Ollie Up, a program serving over 100 youth in their gymnasium and at surrounding skateparks. We also work in Cree and Michif-speaking schools, including St. Frances and Westmount in Saskatoon.

We have worked on location to provide skateboard programs in Chief Whitecap Dakota First Nation, Keeseekoose First Nation, and Mosquito Grizzly Bear Head Lean Man First Nation.

Person standing outdoors wearing a mask, surrounded by Right To Skate boxes and bags, in front of a building with a teepee-shaped roof and large windows.

Supporting & Sponsoring indigenous communities

In the summer of 2025, we worked closely with evacuees from Denare Beach, whose homes were ravaged by wildfires in June. As they spent the summer in Saskatoon hotels, we provided recreation for the youth at local skateparks and gifted skateboards and shoes to all the youth who were interested.

We sponsor Indigenous youth from low-income families in the core neighborhoods of Saskatoon through the Elijah Kerslake Skateboard Scholarship program, which provides free skateboard equipment. We work closely with parents, social workers, counselors, and group homes to serve these children in the best way possible. We provide mentorship, foster positive physical activity habits, and open the door to new friendships at the skatepark, which is a hub for people from all different backgrounds and walks of life.

Group of children in a Right To Skate class at skate park, some holding skateboards and wearing helmets, posing for a photo.

Group of Indigenous children at a Right To Skate class sitting on bleachers and on the ground at an outdoor park, wearing helmets, with two adults standing nearby, under a partly cloudy sky.

Indigenous children at a Right To Skate class celebrating at a skatepark with skateboards and helmets on a sunny day, some with fists raised.

Two boys at a Right To Skate class wearing helmets and skateboards at a skate park, with one helping the other learn to skateboard, and people in the background.

A crowd gathered at Jorell Clay's Rolling Thunder Memorial Park, with some people wearing Native American headdresses, watching and taking photos of a group of speakers or performers under a sign honoring the skateboarder Pyesiw-Wihtaks (Rolling Thun

Indigenous children and teenagers in a Right To Skate class at a skate park, wearing helmets and holding skateboards, with some standing on a ramp and others on the ground, under a clear blue sky.

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