Robert V. Dumont Jr. (1940–1997) was a Native American educational leader who lived in and worked in Chicago, Illinois and at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, most notably as one of the designers of the Native American Educational Services College and its initial director of academic programs.

In 1963–64, Dumont was a John Hay Whitney Fellow working in South Dakota at the Pine Ridge Reservation.

[2] He served on the AIC's education committee with his sister, Nancy Dumont, as well as Faith Smith.

Dumont was part of the committee that drafted the original proposals and curriculum design for a degree-granting institution combining academic and tribal knowledges.

[7] His 1997 obituary in the Billings Gazette praised Dumont for having "challenged those around him to think, and to act in the best traditions and interests of Native people; not to accept failure as an end but as a beginning of new learning and a vision of dynamic social change for a Native peoples.