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Meet Mni Wiconi, or Water is Life

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Meet Mni Wiconi, or Water is Life

CNN's Sara Sidner meets Mni Wiconi, who was born at a camp where protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline are staying to protect their land.

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Dakota Access Pipeline protests 16 videos

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Meet Mni Wiconi, or Water is Life

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Dakota pipeline protesters' last stand

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Tires burn as armed soldiers and law enforcement officers stand in formation on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, to force Dakota Access pipeline protesters off private land where they had camped to block construction. The pipeline is to carry oil from western North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Patoka, Ill. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

What's up with the Dakota Access Pipeline?

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US Navy veteran John Gutekanst from Athens, Ohio, waves an American flag as an activist approaches the police barricade with his hands up on a bridge near Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 4, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
Native Americans and activists from around the country gather at the camp trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Police have their say about Standing Rock

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Veterans stand in solidarity in Standing Rock

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CANNON BALL, ND - DECEMBER 05: Military veterans are briefed on cold-weather safety issues and their overall role at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 5, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Over the weekend a large group of military veterans joined native Americans and activists from around the country who have been at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yesterday the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not grant an easement for the pipeline to cross under a lake on the Sioux Tribes Standing Rock reservation. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Protesters stand strong despite blizzard

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Dakota Access Pipeline fight isn't over

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Victory for Native Americans in pipeline fight

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A crowd celebrates at the Oceti Sakowin camp after it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't grant easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Drumming, chanting over Dakota pipeline halt

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Tribe chief on Dakota Pipeline: 'We made it'

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CANNON BALL, ND - NOVEMBER 30: Snow covers Oceti Sakowin Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on November 30, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172 mile long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Officials: Pipeline will be re-routed

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Amy Goodman describes covering Standing Rock

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Pipeline protesters vow to remain

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Pipeline protesters defy evacuation order

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Built on sacred land: 'It's going to be a battle'

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Police unleashed a water cannon on people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

Protesters fighting pipeline are staying put

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