Cheyenne is an Associate at White Raven Law. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, and a Juris Doctor from Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law. Cheyenne clerked with the Honourable Justice Robert L. Barnes at the Federal Court of Canada from 2019-2020. She articled at the Department of Justice in 2020 and was counsel in the Tax Law Services department after being called to the BC Bar in 2021. She subsequently worked as counsel on class actions involving Indigenous Peoples before joining White Raven Law. She is currently pursuing a Master of Laws degree at McGill University, with her research focused on Indigenous and Aboriginal taxation authority derived from modern treaties.

Cheyenne published a paper in the Lakehead Law Journal in 2020 entitled “The Section 87 Tax Exemption as a Tax Expenditure.” She has been a guest lecturer in Tax Law and Tax Policy courses at Thompson Rivers University, McGill University, and the University of Ottawa, presenting in both French and English. She received the Dean’s Course Prize in Public Lands and Natural Resources at TRU. She participated as a negotiator at the Kawaskimhon National Aboriginal Negotiation Moot in 2018 and was an editor of the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law at TRU.  She received the Graduate Student Excellence Award, the Indigenous Graduate Student Excellence Recruitment Award, and the Rathlyn Fellowship from McGill University.

Cheyenne belongs to the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation. She is of mixed Dakelh, Kānaka Maoli and European heritage. She pursued law in large part to work on revitalizing Dakelh and other Indigenous Nations’ laws. She envisions a pluri-national legal system which positions Indigenous laws on equal or greater footing relative to Canadian colonial laws. With this objective in mind, Cheyenne has dedicated her career to advocating for Indigenous Nations and Peoples in a way that amplifies their legal and governance systems.