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Becoming Little Shell

A LANDLESS INDIAN'S JOURNEY HOME

From Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray, a singular story of discovery and embrace of Indigenous identity.

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Brimming with propulsive, vibrant storytelling, Becoming Little Shell is a major contribution to the burgeoning literature of Native America.

Publish Date: August 20, 2024 (hardcover); August 12, 2025 (tpb)

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In addition to being chosen as the 2025 Great Reads from Great Places Award for the state of Montana, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home has also received the following awards:

 

  • Winner of the Reading the West Book Award

  • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award

  • A People Magazine Best Memoir of the Year

  • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of the Year Selection

  • A Book Riot Best Book of the Year

  • ... and others!

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Praise for
Becoming Little Shell
"I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling. A story of identity, kinship, and the journey toward justice."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Previous Books

One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems & Essays From the World at Large (2018)

Winner: 2018 Montana Book Award

Winner: 2019 High Plains Book Award

Cover image of Chris La Tray's book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large
Descended From a Travel-Worn Satchel: Haiku & Haibun (2021)

Featuring art by

Clare Carpenter

Cover image of Chris La Tray's book, Descended from a Travel-Worn Satchel: Haiku & Haibun
Praise for
One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems & Essays From the World at Large
"This is a sunrise book, a book of revelations, of creekwalks and roadfood and ordinary sadnesses, ordinary joys—which are, in the end, the only kind. ‘I have a stake in this,’ La Tray writes. And so do you. So do you.”

Joe Wilkins

author of The Mountain and the Fathers, When We Were Birds, and Notes from the Journey Westward

Praise for
Descended from a Travel-worn Satchel
"Chris La Tray is skillful in the craft of brevity, as demonstrated in his One-Sentence Journal. In Descended from a Travel-worn Satchel he displays his talent in the art of short-form poetry, through contemporary haiku and haibun. Offering up poetic evidence of the times he inhabits, he secures his place as a descendent of master Bashō."

Andō

poet, writer and mentor

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