Standing Rock protesters sit out the election: 'I'm ashamed of them both'

Activists at the North Dakota pipeline site say they have little faith in either presidential candidate to bring about the kind of change they hope for

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Frank Archambault is not going to vote for president today.

In mid-July, the 45-year-old member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe packed up all of his belongs and his family - five children and a grandson - to travel from Little Eagle, South Dakota, to Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to join the movement of "water protecters" facing off against the federal government and the oil industry. He is fully committed to doing whatever it takes to to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline from crossing the Missouri River.