One Book Montana - Becoming Little Shell with Chris La Tray

Read the book before the event!! One Book Montana, hosted by Humanities Montana, purchased over 200 online copies, so listening through the Libby app is easy! We also have multiple physical copies here at the Library!

Join us in the Cordingley Room on November 20 and interact with Chris La Tray as he shares about his book, Becoming Little Shell.

Cassiopeia Books will be on site to sell his book.

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North and a citizen of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. His third book, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home, was published by Milkweed Editions on August 20, 2024 and has received a number of accolades including a Pacific Northwest Book Award and a Writing the West Award, and Best Memoir of the Year selections from both People and Esquire magazines. 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 served as the 2025 Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana and was awarded the 2025 Montana Heritage Keeper Award by the Montana Historical Society. Chris writes the weekly newsletter An Irritable Métis and lives near Frenchtown, Montana. He was the 11th Montana Poet Laureate, holding that post for 2023–2025.

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• This month, 25th November, 06:30 pm, Learning with Leigh: The Real Thanksgiving in Great Falls

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