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People in the U.S. state of North Dakota angry because an oil company is a giant pipe near their land. The oil company to build the multibillion-dollar oil pipeline under a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The Sioux people Native Americans who have on the land for thousands of years. The Native Americans have been by many protestors. They are all to stop the $3.8 billion pipeline from near Sioux land. They say it will dirty their drinking water and it undrinkable. They also say the pipeline will sacred Sioux sites. A Texas-based company, Energy Transfer Partners, owns the 1,885-km pipeline project. It is almost complete.

The protestors are themselves "water protectors". They have on the site for months trying to the pipeline. They were recently joined by veterans from the U.S. military. These are retired soldiers, sailors and members of the air force. The veterans have the protestors shelters to warm in the freezing winter. There has violence between the protestors and police. A North Dakota spokesman said some of the protestors were "frightening". He said: "It's time for them to home." However, Coast Guard veteran Ashleigh Jennifer Parker said: "We will unarmed, completely prepared for peaceful protest. We don't even the word 'protest'. We're there to the water protectors."