Throughout history there have been protests by minorities for the same rights as the white man These minorities include African Americans Hispanics and Native Americans Native Americans were influenced by the African American protests to also protest for what they believed were wrong choices made by our governments Two of these protests were The Indian Civil Rights Movement and a more recent protest the Dakota Pipeline These protests were similar and different compared to each other and showed the world how they were being treated compared to others The Indian Civil Rights Movement was a protest for Native Americans to choose our own way of life In the year of 1961 about 400 Native Americans from 67 different tribes came together in Chicago Even though the two protests are similar the Dakota Pipeline took place in 2016 when an oil pipeline 1 172 miles long was to be placed underground from South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois The Sioux tribe did not agree with the pipeline not only cause of the likelihood of negatively affecting the environment of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation including contaminating the water the people of the reservation heavily relied on but also because of the damages to a spiritual burial ground and possible other important grounds Like the Native Americans in the Indian Civil Rights Movement the Sioux tribe peacefully protested by making a camp next to the location of the pipeline
