Passports Rejected: Haudenosaunee Women's LAX Withdraws From World Championships

For the second time in a five-year period, a Native American lacrosse team has withdrawn from the 2015 Federation of International Lacrosse U19 World Championship. Last week, officials from the Haudenosaunee Nation Women’s Lacrosse Board announced that its under-19 squad would not be competing at its world tournament, scheduled to begin July 23 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Team representatives opted to pull out of the global event as officials from the United Kingdom would not allow members to enter Scotland using only their Haudenosaunee passports. “They told us we could get into the country using our Haudenosaunee passports, but we still need an American or Canadian passport to back it up,” Amber Hill, the team’s public relations advisor, told ICTMN. “So that wasn’t going to work.”

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