Jacoby Hotain is 15 years old and comes from Sioux Valley Dakota Nation (SVDN). When he was 15 years old, Hotain, started with Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School in Brandon, Manitoba, just east of SVDN.


In his first year at Crocus Plains, Hotain joined the football team where “all his hard work on and off the field has paid off when he was asked to join the Varsity squad”. He was later awarded “Junior Varsity Lineman of the year”.


Jacoby Hotain also joined the Manitoba Selects, a Winnipeg Blue Bomber initiative designed to assist young football player aspirations, by arranging games with teams in the United States. He got to travel to Grand Forks, Minneapolis, Miami and Orlando Florida, While in Florida his team won over the teams from Miami and Orlando. He even got a chance to travel to Las Vegas where he got to see an NFL game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs.


All this would not be possible without the grateful assistance from Sioux Valley’s Jordan’s Principle Initiative and Dakota Tiwahe Services.