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Nicole is Evan Whitesky’s partner. She is the primary caregiver for their two young children, Maiingan and Nangohns. Nicole and Evan have a very loving and supportive relationship, marked by mutual respect and a shared desire to reconnect with traditional Anishinaabe customs. Nicole strives to teach her children what she knows of the native language (Anishinaabemowin), and she embodies Anishinaabe community values by patiently nurturing the people around her. She also knows traditional medicine (which she learned from the community’s spiritual guide, Aileen Jones); respects the elders’ wisdom; and knows how to read the natural landscape for signs of bad weather. While several other characters freeze to death during the frigid winter, Nicole only takes her children outside when there are no signs of an approaching blizzard in the air. Such skills prove essential to her family’s survival. Toward the end of the book, Evan is shot in a violent confrontation with the story’s antagonist, Justin Scott, and it’s not clear if he survives. In the Epilogue, the reader learns that Nicole has assumed leadership of the survivors, and she is leading them to a new settlement, where they will live in connection with “Mother Earth” as they’ve done for generations. Nicole also reflects, upon the community’s departure, on how unnecessary many of the technological advancements on the modernized reserve seem.
Nicole McCloud Quotes in Moon of the Crusted Snow
The Moon of the Crusted Snow quotes below are all either spoken by Nicole McCloud or refer to Nicole McCloud . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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“You're a good man[.]”
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Chapter 5
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“Yeah, all moccasin telegraph all the time these days.”
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Chapter 22
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“Well, you make sure you spend some time with her. Go for a walk in the bush. When the spring comes, ask her to show you some of the medicines. She'll know a lot now, if she remembers all the stuff from when I used to take her and all the young girls out there. It will be important if we don't get any new supplies in from the hospital down south.”
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Chapter 23
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“Scott’s a fucking asshole. […] he orders us around. He threatens us. And the worst part is, Brad has totally fallen in line […] And sometimes I catch Scott staring at me. It really creeps me out.”
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“And it’s weird—he seems to be getting bigger, though I know that’s not possible. Probably it's just the rest of us are getting skinnier.”
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Chapter 25
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“Do you kids know the one about Nanabush and the geese?”
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“Don’t be greedy!”
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Epilogue: Ziigwaan (Spring)
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Their ancestors were displaced from their original homeland in the South and the white people who forced them here had never intended for them to survive. […] But they refused to wither completely, and a core of dedicated people had worked tirelessly to create their own settlement away from this town.
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No one wanted to deal with any more of them. Not now.
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Nicole McCloud Quotes in Moon of the Crusted Snow
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Chapter 1
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“You're a good man[.]”
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Chapter 5
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“Yeah, all moccasin telegraph all the time these days.”
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Chapter 22
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“Well, you make sure you spend some time with her. Go for a walk in the bush. When the spring comes, ask her to show you some of the medicines. She'll know a lot now, if she remembers all the stuff from when I used to take her and all the young girls out there. It will be important if we don't get any new supplies in from the hospital down south.”
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Chapter 23
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“Scott’s a fucking asshole. […] he orders us around. He threatens us. And the worst part is, Brad has totally fallen in line […] And sometimes I catch Scott staring at me. It really creeps me out.”
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“And it’s weird—he seems to be getting bigger, though I know that’s not possible. Probably it's just the rest of us are getting skinnier.”
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Chapter 25
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“Do you kids know the one about Nanabush and the geese?”
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“Don’t be greedy!”
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Epilogue: Ziigwaan (Spring)
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Their ancestors were displaced from their original homeland in the South and the white people who forced them here had never intended for them to survive. […] But they refused to wither completely, and a core of dedicated people had worked tirelessly to create their own settlement away from this town.
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No one wanted to deal with any more of them. Not now.
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