Ruth Buffalo: Empowering Indigenous Communities as the new CEO of MIWRC

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine · Mar 28, 2024 · 28m

Ruth Buffalo is a citizen of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation and a descendant of the Chiricahua Apache. She has served on advisory councils focused on women's health, women's leadership development and local food systems. She is board President for the National Native Boarding School Healing Coalition. She is also the former board president of the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition.

In 2019, Ruth was named North Dakota Woman of the Year by North Dakota Women’s Network. As a former member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, she is the original bill author of a new law that…