Mountain time
American Prairie National Discovery Center
302 W Main St
Lewistown, MT 59457
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Chris La Tray, Montana’s current Poet Laureate and a member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, will be on hand for an exciting presentation and book signing.
La Tray, a Metís storyteller, is author of a number of books, including One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems, Essays from the World at Large, and Becoming Little Shell.
This program is part of the Montana Poets Laureate program from Humanities Montana and coincides with American Prairie’s Annual Indigenous Peoples Celebration.
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.