Rayanna Seymour
Stories to Futures: Revealing Indigenous Concepts of Economy and Finance
An Anishinaabe lawyer, aunty, and jingle dress dancer, Rayanna is from Anishinaabeg of Naongashiing (Big Island) in Treaty 3 Ontario. Her professional work as a lawyer centers around supporting Nations who are protecting, conserving and stewarding their lands under their own laws as they assert their inherent jurisdiction.
She is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada on the lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). She is a Staff Lawyer and leads the RELAW Program (Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water) at West Coast Environmental Law. RELAW is a group of legal strategists working within the legal context, supporting Nations in their Indigenous law based strategies. To learn more about this program, watch RELAWs film called ‘Nurturing RELAW’s Roots: Standing up Indigenous Law’.
