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

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