Meaning of moccasin telegraph | Babel Free

Definitions

An informal communication network among the native peoples in North America.

Examples

“Most had refused to believe the gruesome news brought to the stockade walls by the moccasin telegraph of the Crow, Sioux and Cheyenne.”

“But I'd heard stories about them through the moccasin telegraph.”

“The moccasin telegraph carried messages from the last non-treaty leader of importance, Sitting Bull, to tribesmen still on the various reservations in Dakota and Nebraska territory.”

“Nor should we find ourselves surprised at the relative but growing success of native cultural producers elsewhere: the 1491s, a young comedy troupe whose short satirical productions go viral on the electronic moccasin telegraphs of Facebook and Twitter; A Tribe Called Red, an electronic music group that has attained a fan base in the dance and hip-hop scenes that far exceeds the native community; and other examples.”

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