For further clarification, how much and how far did information or news travel among the tribes?

I heard once that tribes in California were in contact with tribes as far away Alaska through runners who ran 80 miles a day for a solid month.

So for example, did the native americans of the plains hear rumors about the colonists far before the first colonists ventured into the plains?

Did the news of the Spanish conquest of the Aztect empire ever travel north to the native americans in present-day USA?