What are the similarities and differences between the Cherokee trail of tears and Lakota Sioux At standing rock

For the last few months, members of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe and allies from numerous other Native American tribes have protested the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multi-billion dollar oil pipeline that would span four Western states and affect native communities and land in many ways. The community of protesters represents the largest gathering of Native Americans in more than a century, yet it has been largely ignored by the mainstream American media. (The protest’s significant social media presence might make it seem to some of us as if it’s receiving such attention, but outside of that bubble of insiders there has been shockingly little national coverage.)