The track, called “Indian Givers”, supports the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which is attempting to block the pipeline’s construction, and targets the government and oil companies.
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June Sapiel and Dawn Neptune Adams from the Penobscot tribe are among speakers demanding action at an event Saturday in Portland.
Native American protestors and their supporters are confronted by security during a demonstration against work being done for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) oil pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, September 3, 2016. According to RollingStone.com, the folk-rock legend’s tune rails against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is being built to carry oil from North Dakota to IL through land that many Native Americans consider sacred. A Sioux Tribe by the same name is fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline in that area.
The Guardian notes that the US Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over pipelines that cross major waterways, “approved the Dakota Access plan despite warnings from the Environmental Protection Agency that leaking oil could pollute the rivers”.
Standing Rock tribal members are concerned that the pipeline could damage their water supply and they have reported its construction has already damaged sacred burial sites, cultural artifacts and ancestral lands. The protests have led to many arrests, Rolling Stone noted.
It’s been more than a week since an Alabama inspector discovered a leak in a pipeline that normally pushes 1.3 million barrels of gasoline a day. She also serves on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and has vowed to support Native American tribes whose reliably Democratic votes helped deliver her 2012 election victory in a very red state, Natter says.
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“We remain committed to fighting the corporate interests that back this project and name this pipeline ‘a pipeline of corporate greed”, the group added.
