Mountain time
Holter Museum of Art
12 E Lawrence St.
Helena, MT 59601
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Chris La Tray, Montana’s Poet Laureate and a member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, for the launch of his memoir, Becoming Little Shell, a presentation and a book signing.
Presented by the Montana Arts Council and Montana Book Company.
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.