He appeared in The Lone Ranger, The World's Fastest Indian, Community, and Breaking Bad and was a musician, pow wow dancer, motivational speaker and the Hereditary Chief of the Sac and Fox Nation.
[citation needed] He was a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War.
During the 1993 television season Grant had the recurring role of Auggie Velasquez, owner of the small-town general store and trading post, in Harts of the West.
The same year, Grant appeared as a man who sells his truck to Walter White in the Breaking Bad episode "Ozymandias."
From 2012, Grant was a prominent member of the American Indian Advisory Board at the San Diego International Film Festival.