HeyJaredAn 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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It’s a Good Reminder (opens the original)
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Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. I am posting this newsletter today from a perch at a table inside the Yellowstone Tribal Heritage Center at Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park. As this missive hits your inbox it will be Thursday afternoon (depending on where you live) and I’ll have already embarked boldly into the second half of my weeklong residency here. I went into this thing with no expect
I Rest in the Grace of the World (opens the original)
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Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. Today I am checking in briefly to share various news updates that I intended to get out last Friday or so and then, after I shut down my laptop on the previous Wednesday evening and headed for the PNW in the wee hours of the next morning, intending to do a little work from my cabin on the road, I ultimately decided to not even drag the abominable thing out of my bag.
A Few More Sentences – 46 (opens the original)
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Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. In this case, I am happy to present the FORTY-SIXTH EDITION! of the monthly sentences. For those of you new here this monthly edition, where I post the daily, single sentences that I’ve accumulated for the month-just-ended, is based on the practice that ultimately led to my first book, One-Sentence Journal, back in 2018.It’s simple and fulfilling &
There Wasn’t a Dud Among You (opens the original)
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Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. Today during my morning porch sit it was only 46°, which means the days where I get to indulge the eager neighborhood by busting out the Porch Sweater™ are nigh upon us1. It was beautiful and chilly and I loved it. Notably, and I’m certain to make my mom jealous in reporting this, while out on my saunter a nearly-actual murder of crows passed by overhead: t
This is a Story (opens the original)
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Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. This edition is all about important anniversaries (to me anyway), and events both cool and landmark. It’s been more difficult to write than I thought it would on account of all the gigantic, unanticipated emotions revisiting it stirred up but at least, and thankfully for obvious reasons, I am getting it out on time!Before we even get out of the gate, though, I want to
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