14 November 2024
Poet Laureate To Serve As Distinguished Kittredge Writer
Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray will serve as the 2025 Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer in environmental studies at the University of Montana.
His memoir, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home, was published by Milkweed Editions earlier this year. La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendant of the Pembina Band of the Red River of the North and an enrolled member
Indigenous Cooking Class Promotes Nutrition, Culture
MISSOULA — On a Tuesday evening in late October, the smell of cooking onions and meat combined with the sound of lively chatter to create a friendly warmth in Missoula Food Bank’s learning kitchen as about a dozen people prepared bison salsa verde enchiladas.
The cooking class, held by All Nations Health Center on Oct. 22, was the second of a three-part series focused on meal prep and Indigenous


