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Moon of the crusted Snow covers the brutality of oppression the indigenous Canadians have endured since European settlers first arrived in Canada. Evan and his community perfectly illustrate the modern Indigenous, where traumatic pain had left countless scars on innocent indigenous people’s lives and history.
Technology and Survival
Technology and Survival
Moon of the Crusted Snow discusses the struggles of the modern Indigenous communities. As people become more dependent on modern technology and conveniences, they forget the Anishinaabe ways of survival. While the older generation suggests living a simple life, in equilibrium with the land, the younger generation prefers to depend on technology.
Colonialism and Oppressions
Colonialism and Oppressions
Evan and his community mirror the traumatic consequences of colonial oppression of European settlers. Due to such terrible experiences, the community has been losing its distinct identity, language and culture. Pain of oppression continues to live on people's lives, eventually leading people to leave the reservation.
Selfishness vs Selflessness
Selfishness vs Selflessness
Most members of the community continue their culture of sharing food and caring for the elders. Some others, including Justin Scott, act selfishly. They manipulate people's culture and value for their benefit. The novel demonstrate how damaging and demoralizing selfishness can be alone, but also how unity results in stronger bond and resilience.
Post - Colonial Analysis on M O O N o f t h e C R U S T E D S N O W
When examining the novel from a post-colonial perspective, Rice not only portrays the pain of oppression and destruction of Indigenous culture and history but reveals the resilience and determination needed to fight the trauma caused by colonialism that continues to cause crisis and division in the Anishinaabe community.
Stripping of their Values and Lands
Indigenous people were forced out of their lands by the European settlers
Indigenous people were abandoned far away, with no means of survival, in harsh weathers and environment
Destruction of Culture and Traditional Lifestyles
The Indigenous people's customs had been permanently damaged and changed by Europeans' unjust and discriminatory actions
brutal impact of Eurocentrism has nearly caused the extinction of the Indigenous culture, language, and history of their communities.
Brutal Child Abuse and Residential Schools
Innocent Indigenous children were forcefully abducted from their families to be abused and indoctrinated in Eurocentrism to "assimilate to foreign ideals" (Henderson)
European settlers used violence to seize power and altered Indigenous identity and culture with the ideology of Western dominance and centralism.
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