Native America Calling: Native American veterans create valuable avenues for connections with fellow Native vets

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Native America Calling: Native American veterans create valuable avenues for connections with fellow Native vets

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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Native American veterans create valuable avenues for connections with fellow Native vets

Filmmaker and U.S. Air Force veteran Ryan Begay (Diné) set out to bring some of the stories of others Native American veterans to a broader audience.

In the process, he brings those stories, especially those of Native women who serve in the military to life, in the documentary entitled “Honor Song.” Join the conversation to hear about the film and from some of those featured in it.

Ryan Begay: Honor Song Trailer

Another Air Force veteran, Steven Sibley (Cherokee), also saw a need to connect with fellow military veterans and to provide a better source of information about the resources and benefits available to veterans and their family members. He now is co-publisher of the free Oklahoma Veterans News Magazine.

Tune into Native America Calling to talk with him about his service in the military and ways veterans can connect with the benefits available to them.

Guests on Native America Calling

Ryan Begay (Diné), producer, director, actor, and Air Force veteran

Cassie Velarde Neher (Jicarilla Apache), Navy veteran and doctoral student at the University of New Mexico

Darrell Charlee (Diné), Air Force Master Sgt.

Steven Sibley (Delaware by blood and Cherokee by the Dawes Roll), retired, disabled veteran living in Oklahoma, and a co-publisher of Oklahoma Veterans News Magazine