Spirit North: Uplifting Indigenous Youth Through Sport

When Olympian Beckie Scott retired from cross-country skiing, she knew she wanted to continue working in sports. After participating in three Olympic games—1998 in Nagano, Japan, 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and 2006 in Turin, Italy—she became Canada’s most decorated cross-country ski racer in the history of the sport.

With a strong connection to sport and her home province of Alberta, Scott became an ambassador for a learn-to-ski program that was starting in First Nations and Métis communities in northern Alberta. Travelling through remote Indigenous communities in Canada’s north, she realized not only how difficult it was for Indigenous youth to get involved in sport but also how much being involved meant to them.

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