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Professor N. Bruce Duthu is the Samson Occom Professor and Chair of Native American
& Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College. An internationally recognized scholar of
Native American law and policy, Professor Duthu joined the faculty of Arts & Sciences
at Dartmouth in 2008. He served as Dartmouth’s Associate Dean of the Faculty for International Studies & Interdisciplinary Programs. Duthu earned his BA degree in
religion and Native American Studies from Dartmouth College and his JD degree from
Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty,
Duthu was Professor of Law at Vermont Law School where he also served as the law
school’s Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and as inaugural director of the VLS-Sun Yatsen University (Guangzhou, China) Partnership in Environmental Law. He served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, the universities of Wollongong and
Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Trento in northern Italy.
Professor Duthu is the author of SHADOW NATIONS: TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AND THE
LIMITS OF LEGAL PLURALISM (Oxford University Press 2013) and AMERICAN INDIANS
AND THE LAW (Viking/Penguin Press 2008) and was a contributing author of Felix S.
Cohen’s HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW (2005), the leading treatise in the field of federal Indian law. His co-edited special volume of South Atlantic Quarterly,
Sovereignty, Indigeneity and the Law, won the 2011 CELJ (Council of Editors of Learned
Journals) award for Best Special Issue. He co-produced the documentary feature film,
Dawnland (2018) that focuses on state removal of Indian children from their families. In
2019, Dawnland received an Emmy award for Outstanding Research. Duthu has lectured
on indigenous rights in various parts of the world, including Russia, China, Bolivia, Italy,
France, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Professor Duthu is an enrolled tribal member of the United Houma Nation of Louisiana.
He and his wife, Hilde Ojibway, have 3 children and 5 grandchildren.

Furch is the administrator for the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies. She spent several years working in the Marshall Islands and in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. She is a graduate of Fordham University and has an MLIS from the University of. Illinois.