Ruth Anna Buffalo is a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation). Originally from Mandaree, she currently resides in south Fargo with her husband and four children. She was elected in 2018 and served a four-year term representing District 27 in the North Dakota House of Representatives. She is an advocate with the First Nations Women’s Alliance and currently serves on the Department of Interior’s Not Invisible Act Commission. —. The Commission’s purpose is to make recommendations to the Department of the Interior and Department of Justice to improve intergovernmental coordination and establish best practices for state-tribal-federal law enforcement to combat the epidemic of missing persons, murder, and trafficking of Native Americans and Alaska Natives.