The Moccasin Telegraph And Other Improbabilities

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Barre Toelken: The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Improbabilities a Personal Essay Page 51 I found it interesting the different folklore that surrounded the Navajo people involving the moccasin telegraph. It would be hard idea for outsiders to rationalize how these people just have these premonitions that things are going to happen or that they need to go somewhere. The one example, about him taking a plane to visit some Navajo friends and how they waited at the bus stop where most people visiting are dropped off rather than going to the airport, stood out to me the most. Toelken says: “Such a misfire is not itself unusual, and I do not include it as an example of the moccasin telegraph gone awry. Rather, I suggest it might be one of several