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Cody Honani stands outside the Hopi Emergency Relief Fund site located in Kykotsmovi, Ariz.\u00a0 on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. Cody is the site manager for HERF and is currently in active recovery from a meth addiction. (Photo by Storm Tso)<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”316.5px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 4a” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Things were different back in 2019. Honani was working at a local convenience store and studying accounting at Northland Pioneer College in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He began to struggle and feel overwhelmed with school.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI was back in school for the first time in like 10 years, and I decided I was like getting really stressed and I was like,\u00a0 maybe I should just get a little bit of a Adderall or something to help me with my studies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWhen his search for Adderall was unsuccessful, he began using cocaine to help him stay awake and focused. From there his casual use of cocaine turned into him using meth. Cody used meth for several months without his family knowing until he called the police on himself to try and do a forced detox. Police refused to take him into custody and referred him to behavioral health where he joined a program called Matrix. After attending for a few weeks he quit the program and began using again around the start of the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis time his drug use became more frequent and out of control. After a couple months he realized that he\u2019d had enough. He reached out to his oldest sister who took him into her home and helped him begin his detox. To help keep his mind off drugs he picked up several hobbies such as sewing and volunteering<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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A \u201cPhases of the Moon\u201d ribbon skirt made by Cody Honani. Sewing was one of the hobbies that Honani used to keep him busy when he began his recovery. (Photo courtesy of Cody Honani)<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.12.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/naja-nextgen2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/11\/Storm_004.jpg” alt=”\u00d2The American dream is not my Indigenous dream. It’s so different than that,\u00d3 Jolie Varela said. \u00d2As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see our ceremonies restored, our traditions restored, our homelands restored, and our land back. When people come from other places and they come in the name of this American dream or in pursuit of this American dream, I don’t think they realize how that American dream erases Indigenous people, and further infringes upon our rights as Native people.\u00d3 (Photo by Jarrette Werk)” title_text=”Hero_FPO” align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 3″ _builder_version=”4.12.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 3″ _builder_version=”4.12.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Cody Honani with his family on April 18, 2021. From left to right: Terri Honani, Robinson Honani, Rainey Honani, Cody Honani, and Samantha Honani. Here we have Cody, his sisters, and father holding up traditional Hopi plaques. (Photo by Storm Tso)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 4a” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Back when Honani was still an active drug user he began hand sewing old articles of clothing into small bags and using scrap materials to create pencil cases and makeup bags. After getting clean, Honani picked up the hobby again to keep himself distracted. His sister gave him her sewing machine and he began to take on larger projects such as ribbon skirts.<\/span><\/p>\nAs the pandemic continued, Honani also began looking for ways to help his people combat COVID-19 and keep himself occupied. He was given an opportunity to volunteer with <\/span>Yok\u2019 Naawakinta, <\/span>a grassroots organization on the Hopi Reservation that distributed clean drinking water to the Hopi people, due to the high levels of arsenic found in the local water. Honani said volunteering with the group was beneficial to helping him stay sober. The work was so laborious and demanding he didn\u2019t have the time or energy to think about his drug use. The work was rewarding and helped him be a part of his community again after isolating himself.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter Yok\u2019 Naawakinta completed their efforts, Honani was given another volunteer opportunity distributing food with the Hopi Emergency Relief Fund <\/span>\u2014 <\/span>known as HERF <\/span>\u2014 <\/span>\u00a0a project of the Hopi Foundation. His first job as a volunteer was to separate large bags of potatoes into small grocery bags.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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The Hopi Emergency Relief Fund crew cleans corn while waiting for individuals to pick up food boxes in June 2021. HERF used to build 200 food boxes weekly to distribute to the Hopi people. (Photo by Storm Tso)<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 4a” _builder_version=”4.12.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
As the pandemic continued and more people contracted COVID-19, the Hopi Foundation saw an opportunity to make the HERF a more established program and offered the current volunteers jobs, Honani being one of them. He began as a HERF crew member in October 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWith more staff, HERF ramped up its operation and began to host weekly food box and PPE kit distributions in partnership with Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief and Ancestral Lands, Hopi. Honani and his team organized and distributed 200 food boxes to one of the 12 Hopi villages every week. They also made \u201cCovid Kits\u201d for people who tested positive for COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\nWith the decline in COVID-19 cases and vaccines more widely available today, HERF is preparing to close its doors in December. Looking back, Honani said he found his work with HERF fulfilling. When asked about his plans after HERF he said,<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI really like sewing and I really would like to turn that into something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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