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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. He writes the weekly newsletter "An Irritable Métis" and lives near Frenchtown, Montana. He was the 11th Montana poet laureate (Aug. 2023 – Aug. 2025).
The Latest
July 2, 2025
No Really, How Do We Fund the Art We Care About *Right Now*?
Interview with Anne Helen Petersen about micro-funding and other things HERE.
August 1, 2024
High Country News Excerpts Becoming Little Shell
"The Vision of Little Shell" ... read it HERE.
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