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Chris La Tray

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. His third book, "Becoming Little Shell," will be published by Milkweed Editions on August 20, 2024. His first book, "One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large," won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His book of haiku and haibun poetry, "Descended from a Travel-worn Satchel," was published in 2021 by Foothills Publishing. Chris writes the weekly newsletter "An Irritable Métis" and lives near Frenchtown, Montana. He is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025.

Chris's Latest Articles

Ayabe-way-we-tung, or Chief Little Shell III

The vision of Little Shell

The still-unfolding story of how Ayabe-way-we-tung guided his tribe in the midst of colonization, as excerpted from Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray’s new book, “Becoming Little Shell.”
Lily Gladstone

Reframing our stories

As spectacular as Lily Gladstone is in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” it’s not a film for Indians. Nor is the new Ken Burns documentary “The American Buffalo.” Told through a white lens, these big screen tragedies underscore that Indigenous people need more opportunities to tell our stories ourselves.

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