These stories encompass a range of hilarious and vivid recollections that revolve around visions and dreams, and that ultimately trace Buck's path to becoming a teacher in Indigenous cosmology and astronomy. A personal narrative that explores the history of the Indigenous people of Northern Manitoba and the impact the process of colonization had and has on them, I Have Lived Four Lives... includes a personal perspective as well as Buck's experiences as a Cree person in a Canadian framework. His story speaks about oppression, racism, addiction, poverty, identity, dreams, healing, ceremony and purpose. Buck offers the reader a new perspective on the depth of knowledge and intellectual thought held outside the mainstream, that, in his words, "have up to now, been marginalized, ignored, stereotyped and/or romanticized."