Pacific time
Liberty Park
402 South Pittsburg Street
Spokane, WA 99202
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join for a book reading and signing with Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray. Auntie’s Bookstore will sell copies of La Tray’s new memoir, Becoming Little Shell.
Chris La Tray
Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. La Tray is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025 and a former bookseller at Fact & Fiction. He writes the weekly newsletter “An Irritable Métis” and lives near Frenchtown, Montana.
Nonfiction
A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
Available now!
From Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray, a singular story of discovery and embrace of Indigenous identity.