A member of the Standing Rock Sioux tells us why American Indians are protesting the Dakota Access pipeline.
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00:00They did four tests, and four tests leaked.
00:03So even before the pipeline has started, it has already leaked four times.
00:19Once that pipeline leaks into the water, it will damage water for millions of people.
00:29But not only that, we have all of our wildlife, all of the farmers, the ranchers, the people who fry the food.
00:45The oil that's proposing to go through that pipeline is not even staying in America.
00:49It's being shipped to China.
00:51It created 35 jobs, and that's it.
00:55It's an economical disaster.
01:07Even President Obama, who did not step up to help us.
01:11For me, a president of the United States has never been there for indigenous people.