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In 2015 Noah Blue Elk Hotchkiss founded Tribal Adaptive, a 501 c(3) organization, with help from Olympic Legend Billy Mills and his Running Strong for Native American Youth program with a goal to encourage other Natives with disabilities to find a path towards a successful independent life through Adaptive Sports. This webinar will focus on Noah’s journey, the mission of Tribal Adaptive to “use sports as a tool to impact and shape the lives of native people with disabilities” and to create opportunities for Native athletes to attend college.
Learning Objectives:
1. Illustrate how people with disabilities have many accomplishments in recreational and competitive athletics.
2. Discuss how adaptations have been made to encourage and increase the involvement of people with disabilities in athletics.
3. Assess the role of native student athletes in collegiate sports.
About Noah Hotchkiss, CEO and Founder of Tribal Adaptive
Noah Hotchkiss is Southern Ute, Southern Cheyenne and Caddo and is the CEO and Founder of Tribal Adaptive. After a car accident in 2009, Noah was left paralyzed from the waist down. After trying a handful of sports post-accident, in 2014 Noah was introduced to wheelchair basketball. Basketball opened so many doors for Noah, he decided to use it as an avenue for other Native people with disabilities. Selected as part of the inaugural class of DreamStarters with Billy Mills’ program Running Strong for Native American Youth, Noah created Tribal Adaptive whose mission is to “use sports as a tool to improve the health, wellness, and independence of Native Americans with disabilities,” creating basketball camps in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona and tournaments. He was named the National Indian Gaming Youth Ambassador in 2016, the 2016 Champion for Change by the Center for Native American Youth, 40 under 40 Award from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2022 Noah graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Management and played Division I wheelchair basketball.
Funding was made possible in part by the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council as part of the Native Center for Disabilities project. The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council is supported by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1,500,930 with 100 percent funding by ACL/HHS. Council efforts are those of the grantee and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by ACL/HHS, or the U.S. Government. The views expressed in written materials or publications and by any speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the ADDPC or the Administration for Community Living, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.