"moccasin telegraph" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013, Terry C. Johnston, Red Cloud's Revenge:",
          "text": "Most had refused to believe the gruesome news brought to the stockade walls by the moccasin telegraph of the Crow, Sioux and Cheyenne.",
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          "ref": "2014, Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo, Up Ghost River, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But I'd heard stories about them through the moccasin telegraph.",
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          "ref": "2015, Gerald Hickman, Medal of Honor, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2017, Scott Richard Lyons, The World, the Text, and the Indian, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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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        "An informal communication network among the native peoples in North America."
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          "ref": "2013, Terry C. Johnston, Red Cloud's Revenge:",
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          "text": "But I'd heard stories about them through the moccasin telegraph.",
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          "ref": "2015, Gerald Hickman, Medal of Honor, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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