In Person: BLS Release Party at the Missoula Public Library

Join Missoula Public Library and Chris La Tray for a book launch program celebrating the release of Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home,  the highly-anticipated new book from Montana Poet Laureate and Little  Shell Chippewa member Chris La Tray. The book – a memoir combining the  story of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe, the most recent tribe to  receive federal recognition from the United States Government, the  history of the Métis people, and La Tray’s own search to find a place  with them – tells, in the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, (Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants),  “a story as strong and beautiful as a Métis sash, a story of identity,  kinship and the journey toward justice.” Fact & Fiction Bookstore  will be on-hand to sell copies of the book. Doors open at 5:30 PM and  the program begins at 6:00 PM.