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The Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team is still being denied entry into the United Kingdom, even after the U.S. State Department granted the players a waiver to travel under their own passports ...
The 23 members of the Iroquois Nationals -- whose ancestors helped invent the sport as much as 1,000 years ago -- refuse to use U.S. or Canadian passports, and the United Kingdom won't recognize ...
Iroquois Indians who were born in Canada march Dec. 26, 1940, through the main street of Buffalo, N.Y., carrying signs protesting that the U.S. pilgrim fathers were not required to be fingerprinted.
The Iroquois lacrosse team is in danger of missing the World Lacrosse Championships in Manchester, England, this week because the United States has refused to recognize their passports, stranding ...
The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse and, in a rare example of international recognition of American Indian sovereignty, they participate at every tournament as a separate nation.
The Iroquois refused to accept United States passports, saying they did not want to travel to an international competition on what they consider to be a foreign nation’s passport. “It’s a ...
Central NY News; Passport dispute halts Iroquois lacrosse team's trip to world competition in England. Published: ; Jul. 10, 2010, 10:59 p.m.
Good news came Wednesday for the Iroquois lacrosse team waiting in New York City for reassurance the U.S. government would allow them to reenter the country on tribal-issued passports on their ...
Players on the Iroquois national lacrosse team hung around a bustling terminal at Kennedy Airport on Tuesday afternoon, holding their passports and hoping for good news from Washington, D.C. After ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — An American Indian lacrosse team’s refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian ...
An American Indian lacrosse team's refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian Country — sovereignty.