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Synopsis:
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off from power and cmmunication with no foreseeable resolution, only very few residents truly realize the community's short-falls. When unexpected visitors arrive, escaping the crumbling society to the south, tensions rise and allegiances are divided. The harsh winter months pas slowly, and the food supply dwindles as the deat toll and panic rise, but the greatest threat to the survival of the reserve might come from within the community itself.
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Moon of the crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice follows Evan Whitesky, who embodies the paradox of modern Indigenous life, through the northern Anishinaabe community’s survival of an apocalyptic crisis. As the town gets ready to survive the long-lasting, harsh winter, the community faces blackout and even loses contact with everywhere else. Things begin to get even worse with the invasions of the survivors from the South and the community's resource shortage. As they struggle through the crisis, they slowly lose their grip on Anishinaabe identity and culture.
"It's a dystopia that's already here. I could draw the personal experience of growing up in a community like this."
- Waubgeshig Rice
“For many decades, our community was struggling due to the legacies of colonialism—residential schools and day schools; and the more negative components of the Indian Act, like forbidding culture and language,
- Waubgeshig Rice
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