How does Two Trees view the snow in the novel, The Last Algonquin?

In Chapter Ten, The Hardest Winter, even though an early snow catches Two Trees unprepared for winter, he sees it as more than just a harbinger of the changing seasons: The snow, thought Two Trees, was a garment of great beauty sent to the Earth Mother by Tchi-Manitou.

It must have been a robe of light such as this that she had worn during her descent from the floating Island in the story of The Beginning.