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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. “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., a Native American protestor who was arrested August

31st after chaining himself to pipeline construction equipment for nearly six hours. “Saw Happy locked to the big machine / They had to cut him loose and you know what that means,” Young

sings. “That’s when Happy went to jail / Behind big money justice always fails.” Throughout the summer, the people of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and the organization ReZpect Our

Water have protested the expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, leading to multiple arrests. In early September, protesters clashed with the private security firm hired to protect the

Dakota Access Pipeline, resulting in numerous injuries. The Obama administration stepped in to suspend the construction of the pipeline as of September 9th. Young has long advocated against

the construction of intrusive, environment-altering pipelines, previously penning the _Storytone_ track “Who’s Gonna Stand Up?” as a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline in 2014. Young

and Willie Nelson also staged a Nebraska concert in 2014 lobbying against the Keystone expansion. Check out the lyrics to “Indian Givers” below, via Stereogum: _There’s a battle raging on

the sacred land Our brothers and sisters have to take a stand Against us now for what we all been doing On the sacred land there’s a battle brewing_ EDITOR’S PICKS _I wish somebody would

share the news_ _Now it’s been about 500 years We keep taking what we gave away Just like what we call Indian givers It makes you sick and gives you shivers_ _I wish somebody would share the

news_ _Big money going backwards and ripping the soil Where graves are scattered and blood was boiled When all who look can see the truth But they just move on and keep their groove_ _I

wish somebody would share the news_ _Saw Happy locked to the big machine They had to cut him loose and you know what that means That’s when Happy went to jail Behind big money justice always

fails_ _I wish somebody would share the news_ _Bring back the days when good was good Lose these imposters in our neighborhood Across our farms and through our waters All at the cost of our

sons and daughters_ TRENDING STORIES _Our brave songs and daughters We’re all here together fighting poison waters Standing against the evil way That’s what we have at the end of day_ _I

wish somebody would share the news_