Basketball

A car accident changed Noah Hotchkiss’ life when he was 11 years old. Now at 16, he is trying to change the lives of other Native Americans.

It seemed like a short 18 years ago when Corey Quigley and his sister Kristen played in their first basketball tournament.

Like many Navajo children, Deshauna Peshlakai and her sister Del Lynn Peshlakai were practically raised with a basketball in their hand.

Every afternoon, Ryneldi Becenti would play a few pick-up games at the Diné College gymnasium in Shiprock, and just as she made her way out of the facility, she’d take one last look at the empty gym she left every evening around 5 o’clock.