Haudenosaunee women’s lacrosse team will not travel on a foreign passport

by Jim Windle, Two Row Times, July 15, 2015

The U-19 Haudenosaunee Women’s Lacrosse Team has dropped out of the World Field Lacrosse Championships which they were to compete in in Edinburgh Scotland at the end of this month.

Once again, Haudenosaunee passports they intended to travel on, were not acceptable according to Canadian, American and Scottish border crossing policies.

Sound familiar? The Men’s Iroquois Nationals ran into the same roadblock in 2010. In that case, the Men’s team chose not to attend rather than travel under what they believe to be a foreign passport.