Richard "Bear" Peter (born September 10, 1972) is a Canadian First Nations wheelchair basketball and para-badminton player.

[2] Richard Peter grew up in British Columbia's largest First Nations community, the Cowichan Tribes reserve and he became a paraplegic when he was run over by a bus at the age of four.

[8] Her initial drive for participating in competitive wheelchair sports came from Rick Hansen, who she met at GF Strong Rehabilitation.

Examples of this include a presentation at the end of the kickoff for Rick Hansen's third “Man in Motion” tour[10] and an annual Kelowna basketball jamboree.

[13] Peter is part of the Cowichan tribe in Duncan and has sat on committees to contribute his knowledge in making decisions.

Peter helped lead Canada to gold in three Paralympic Games, the first being Sydney in 2000, then Athens in 2004 and finally, London in 2012.

[2] Peter fell short of a gold in 2008 in Beijing when the Canadian national team was defeated by Australia.

[13] Richard Peter retired in 2012 at the age of 40, after an 18-year career spent representing his country in international and Paralympic competitions; he was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.

He ensures that every child participates and he brings in his gold medals to show his accomplishments due to his hard work.

[26] Alongside the camps, he has hosted an “Aboriginal Have a Go!” day, where those considered Indigenous could try different wheelchair sports like tennis, basketball and rugby.

[27] The event was in association with “Bridging the Gap”, which is an organization where they raise awareness for wheelchair sports, with one of the methods being the holding of “Have a go!” days.

In 2012, while training in Europe for the Paralympics, he flew back to visit with and introduce a recently paralyzed First Nations teen to wheelchair sports.