Neil Young protests Dakota pipeline with "Indian Givers"

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Neil Young Protests Dakota Access Pipeline With 'Indian Givers' Video
"Now it's been about 500 years / We keep taking what we gave away / Just like what we call Indian givers," rocker sings on protest track

Neil Young joins the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline with his new song and video for "Indian Givers."
By Daniel Kreps

Neil Young joins the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline with his new song and video for "Indian Givers." The video combines footage of the recent protests against the pipeline with footage of Young singing the track while driving in his car.

You don't kill off Big Oil's pet project that easily.
"There’s a battle raging on the sacred land / Our brothers and sisters have to take a stand," Young sings on the track. "Against us now for what we all been doing / On the sacred land there's a battle brewing."
The rocker also refers to "Big Money" as "Indian Givers" for their determination to feed an oil pipeline through land given to the Native Americans.
Young wrote the track in the past two weeks as it mentions Dale "Happy" American Horse Jr.,


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1. Look out Mama there's a white boat coming up the river

Look out, Mama,
there's a white boat
comin' up the river
With a big red beacon,
and a flag,
and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John,
'Cause it don't
look like they're here
to deliver the mail