Native Men of Courage profiles ten outstanding leaders in the Native community. Each chapter presents ordinary individuals who overcame personal challenges and achieved extraordinary accomplishments.

Larry Merculieff (Aleut) - Helped bring a once enslaved and oppressed Aleutian people to a position of power and self-sufficiency
Patrick Brazeau (Algonquin) - National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Raymond Cross (Mandan and Hidatsa) - Coyote Warrior who won a victory of compensation for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people
Golden Eagle Hotshots (Sycuan Reservation) - Heroic group of Native firemen that fight forest fires all over the country
Lieutenant Mark Bowman (Choctaw) - Virginia Beach Police Officer
Stanley Vollant (Innu) - Aboriginal surgeon who fulfilled a 100- year-old Innu tribe prophecy
Frank Abraham (Ojibwe) - A Chief whose wisdom and honesty enabled his tribe to rise from near financial failure
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne) - Former US Senator and three-time US Judo Champion
Chief Tom Porter (Mohawk) - Co-founder of the Akwesane Freedom School