Eastern time
Midtown Scholar Bookstore
1302 North 3rd Street
Harrisburg, PA 17102
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is honored to welcome Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray to Harrisburg for a conversation and signing on his new memoir, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home. La Tray will be in conversation with poet Todd Davis. This event is free and open to the public. Book signing to follow discussion.
To enter the signing line, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment.
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.