Them silly savages...

[lsanderson]

Bid for Trophy Becomes a Test of Iroquois Identity

Jeremy Thompson and other members of the Iroquois Confederacy’s lacrosse team practiced at Wagner College on Staten Island.
By THOMAS KAPLAN
Published: July 12, 2010

The Iroquois national lacrosse team was hoping to spend Monday getting acclimated in England as it prepared for its first game in this year’s world championships.

Instead, the team was stuck in a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, missing the visas needed to travel abroad. And the stakes are bigger than a game: what began late last week as a documentation dispute with the British consulate became on Monday a debate over American Indian sovereignty.

Playing international sports, it turns out, is a lot more complicated when players have to convince the State Department that their passports are legitimate. More

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[yarram.livejournal.com]

This is part of a trend of suddenly deciding not to recognize Haudenosaunee passports. A group of Mohawks who went to Bolivia for an environmental conference were refused readmission to the US and Canada when travelling on their Haudensaunee passports:

http://kahnawakenews.com/clients/kahnawakenews/canada-prevents-mohawks-from-returning-home-on-haudenosaunee-passports-p798.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No

So I suspect it's part of a larger campaign to continue to delegitimize Native/Indigenous sovereignty.