"I was asked to come speak on behalf of the youth [and] on behalf of the original campers," Jasilyn Charger, representative of the International Youth Council based in Standing Rock told Sputnik.
Charger said she has been at the site of the protest in North Dakota since April 2.
She noted it was important for her to be a speaker at the rally because, "We hear speeches of politicians, we hear speech of our headmen, we hear speeches from our chiefs, but we never hear speeches from our youth telling us what they want, how they feel about all this because this is going to directly affect them."
Charger also warned that the "mess" made today by the pipeline will affect the youth of the United States in the future.
The Dakota Access Pipeline Project aims to transport domestically-produced light crude oil from North Dakota through the states of South Dakota and Iowa into Illinois.
On Friday, the departments of Justice, Army and Interior said construction of the pipeline should stop until the environmental concerns are fully investigated.
Also on Friday, a US judge denied a request from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe to stop construction of the pipeline.
