"In traditional Aboriginal societies, women were the equal of men and were entitled to be treated with respect. In fact, in Aboriginal matriarchal societies, women were the ultimate holders of political and social power, with responsibilities expressed in teachings handed down from mother to daughter. One of the saddest influences of the years of contact between Aboriginal and European people in North America has been the denigration of the status of women in Aboriginal societies, as a result of or in conjunction with assaults that occurred against aboriginal cultures generally. ...Black Eyes of All the Time marks an important step in the process of recognition and action. The stories that are revealed here by the victims of abuse are compelling and instructive. No greater testament tot he impropriety of past actions to undermine Aboriginal societies exists than the words of the women in these stories. No greater impetus for action exists than our realization that this behaviour can no longer be tolerated." - Provided by publisher

Green, Ross Gordon. Great Plains Research, vol. 11, no. 1, 2001, pp. 197–198. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23775656.

"After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange, compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She seeks restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her." -- Provided by publisher

Beidler, Peter G. "Four Souls." American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, 2004, pp. 97-101. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A126539783/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=….

Brozzo, Shirley. "Four Souls." Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, p. 151. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A135667109/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=….

"Four Souls." The Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 80, no. 3, 2004, p. 272. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A126157645/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=….

"Living at the intersection of multiple identities in the United States can be dangerous. This is especially true for Native women who live on the more than 56 million acres that comprise America’s Indian Country – the legal term for American Indian reservations and other land held in trust for Native people.

Today, due to a complicated system of criminal jurisdiction, non-Native Americans can commit crimes against American Indians in much of Indian Country with virtual impunity. This has created what some call a modern day «hunting ground» in which Native women are specifically targeted by non-Native men for sexual violence.

In this urgent and timely book, author Amy L. Casselman exposes the shameful truth of how the American government has systematically divested Native nations of the basic right to protect the people in their own communities. A problem over 200 years in the making, Casselman highlights race and gender in federal law to challenge the argument that violence against Native women in Indian country is simply collateral damage from a complex but necessary legal structure. Instead, she demonstrates that what’s happening in Indian country is part of a violent colonial legacy – one that has always relied on legal and sexual violence to disempower Native communities as a whole." -- Provided by publisher

Brown-Crump, Toni. Review of Injustice in Indian Country: Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence Against Native Women. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Vol 6 No 2 (2017): 109-111. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i2.389. https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/871.