There Wasn’t a Dud Among You
A few reflections on IPFEST 2026
An Irritable Métis
Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.
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This is a Story
That I think many of us have never heard before
Do We Feel With All Other Life Forms
Or deny our emotional connection and treat them as commodities
Kinship is Important
And it’s a clear opportunity to assert Indigenous sovereignty and reject the colonial politics of recognition
A Few More Sentences – 45
Miskomini-Giizis (Raspberry Moon) Edition
Reimagine Our Shared Future
Through acts of care for the living world
Time is Like Sparks
Knocked off flint
Whose Known Rule of Warfare
Is an undistinguished destruction of all ages
A Few More Sentences – 44
Ode’imini-Giizis (Strawberry Moon) Edition
Every Class I Teach
Will begin with birds
A Few More Sentences – 43
Zaagibagaa-Giizis (Budding Moon) Edition
Jerked from the Heart of Civilization
And flung into the heart of things primordial