This week on ‘The Write Question,’ in the first part of a two-part conversation, Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), discusses his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions).

Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” (Part One)

The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

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Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” (Part One)

Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” (Part One)

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