can someone tell me what legislation is?

post a summary of a current issue between native americans and the federal government, identify the legislation that you think is linked to the issue, and explain why you think there is a connection

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Legislation is laws.

Federal legislation is laws passed by Congress.
Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "'Native American' issue federal" to get these possible sources:

http://www.llrx.com/columns/reference51.htm
http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/ih/codetalk/
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http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~go1/kellogg/NativeRelationship.html
http://www.fws.gov/nativeamerican/
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/news-articles-press/politics-policy-issues/medical-sexual-health/native-americans-13171.htm
http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/issue.html

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search.

I hope this helps to give you a good start. Thanks for asking.