So in asking the question what do the legislations that were passed have to do with “collecting feathers” one has to understand what king was talking about directly. In that, in his story, the coyote (the white man) relies on deception time and time again to lure the ducks (native peoples to North America) into giving him more and more feathers (land rights and decisions on laws), each time screwing over the ducks a little bit more. For instance how the government repealed certain legislations (IRA) that were specifically put into action to help the indigenous peoples whose lives and whose…