Wilfred Buck’s I Have Lived Four Lives is part memoir and part scientific exploration into Indigenous cosmology and Cree constellations. His stories, though different in subject matter, seamlessly flow together as a web of interconnected Indigenous understandings. Buck describes in vivid reality and dreamscapes the many extreme obstacles he has had to overcome in connection to colonization, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the devastation they leave behind with disconnection, alcoholism, abuse, and trauma. He also shares the ways that his roles as a dream keeper, pipe carrier, and scientific educator have led him from destruction into light. Wilfred Buck is known as an esteemed Traditional Knowledge holder, philosopher, and lifelong student of the Elders and constellations. This collection of stories and Indigenous science is an influential example of the ways that perspectives, worldviews, and understandings shape the past, present, and future.

Cautions / Content Warnings: Alcoholism, extreme drug abuse, trauma, suicide, and violence.
Other End Matter: Acknowledgements
Images: Colour illustrations, constellation or star maps
Contributor Affiliation: Author and Illustrator Wilfred Buck (Opaskwayak Cree Nation), Illustrators Annette S. Lee (Opaskwayak Cree Nation), William Wilson (Opaskwayak Cree Nation)
Bibliography: No
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Source: Books BC - Indigenous Books for Schools

Wilfred Buck is a science facilitator at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre and an Indigenousstar loreexpert. A member of the Opaskwayak Cree NationBuck is known as "the star guy" due to his knowledge of First Nations astronomy. He has researched and consulted with elders to learn more about the astronomical knowledge of Cree,Ojibway,Lakota peoples.

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