We are Survivors: Indigenous Pandemic Resiliency & Community Restoration
For this project, "We are Survivors: Indigenous Pandemic Resiliency & Community Restoration", HONOR Collective members will document and celebrate their efforts by creating a short film that highlights their Indigenous methods of caretaking and ceremony for resilience.
About the Artist
Founded in 2019, the HONOR (Healing Our Nations, Offering Resiliency) Collective is an Indigenous-led network within Southern Arizona designed to strengthen relationships, resiliency and healing practices among Indigenous communities. HONOR members represent Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Kickapoo, Macehual, Mississippi Band of Choctaw, Yaqui, Zuni, Navajo, and Chiricahua Apache Native Nations, as well as various Mexican Indigenous lineages. Members provide mutual aid; conduct community outreach; support Indigenous economy; and convene support circles. HONOR cites countless epidemics witnessed and weathered by Indigenous people living within Tohono O’odham traditional homelands and current Pascua Yaqui tribal lands, including settler colonial genocide and introduction of foreign diseases, continued incidents of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), and now the COVID-19 pandemic.
