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Since age 8, she's been advocating for access to clean drinking water in Canada's Indigenous communities. Now she's leading this fight on the international stage.

Meet 'water warrior' Autumn Peltier.

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00:00One day, I will be an ancestor and I want my great-grandchildren to know I tried hard to fight so they can have clean drinking water.
00:30I will be an ancestor and I want my great-grandchildren to know I tried hard to fight so they can have clean drinking water.
01:00I will be an ancestor and I want my great-grandchildren to know I tried hard to fight so they can have clean drinking water.
01:11No child should grow up not knowing what clean water is, or never knowing what running water is.
01:31My great-grandchildren will never forget.
01:40My great-grandchildren will never forget.
02:15Climate change is a real thing, and they're not realizing that, and basically what we're
02:34all trying to do is convince them, trying to tell them they need to listen to us.
02:38And I just feel being a youth, we're not as heard as we can be in our potential.
03:08My heart is where I come from.
03:15Ask yourself where your heart is.
03:17Where is your spirit?

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