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Native Americans have played a key role in the anti-pipeline movements that have recently increased in the United States. This article aims at understanding the mobilization strategies of Native Americans through the example of the anti-Keystone XL and the anti-DAPL movements. The different alliances, whether with environmental groups or local ranchers and farmers, as well as the choice of Washington D.C. as the focal point of the struggle, thus taking advantage of the executive-legislative tensions, have contributed to the Keystone victory. With the anti-DAPL movement, all eyes were watching the Standing Rock reservation. The struggle was rooted in the land, thus giving substance back to treaty territory. Through the use of social media, non-violent direct action and by performing culture, the actors of the movement insisted on the continued presence of Native Americans in today’s United States.