Elk River Arts & Lectures presents Abe Streep, author of Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana, in conversation with photo-journalist Tailyr Irvine on Thursday, Oct. 3, at Elk River Books. This free public lecture will start at 7 pm, followed by a book signing and reception. During their visit to Livingston, Abe and Taylor with meet with students at Park High.
Brothers on Three is a winner of the Montana Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award. The book is rooted in the community of Arlee, on the Flathead Indian Reservation, home to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The New York Times called it “an immersive portrait of a small tribal town where shared history runs deep, opportunity feels elusive, and basketball is a visceral expression of collective pride, hope, and grit.” Debra Magpie Earling wrote, “Brothers on Three captures the roar of a community spirit powered by blood history, loyalty, and ferocious love.”
Streep writes for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, ProPublica, and Outside, where he is a contributing editor. In 2019, he received the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for deep reporting about underrepresented communities. He also works as a freelance editor and has taught at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the University of Wyoming’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Tailyr Irvine is a Salish and Kootenai journalist born and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. Her work focuses on providing in-depth representations of the lives and complex issues within the diverse communities that make up Native America. She is a co-founder of Indigenous Photograph, a global database dedicated to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories. She contributes to The New York Times and National Geographic. In 2023, Tailyr received a Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grant.
The 2024 Elk River Arts & Lectures Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of the Park County Community Foundation, the Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, and individual donors.
