Iroquois Passports

July 18, 2010

Published in La Croix
(France) on 15 July 2010
by François Ernenwein (link to original link to original)

Translated from by Zachary Hebert. Edited by Gillian Palmer.

Lacrosse is a popular American sport invented by the Native Americans. One team got very lucky; after their first try proved fruitless, the players, all Iroquois, were authorized to leave the country to go to England on a passport granted by their tribe. The authorization will work one time only. The United States government took up the case at the last minute, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped in to plead the team’s case. But now, two questions are still up in the air.

Did the Iroquois team get enough British visas to get to the world championship of this original sport, taking place in Manchester? We hope so; this recognition of the Iroquois Nation should be heart-warming for all players. Above all, here is what we would really like to know: Given how difficult it is to get a passport in the United States, did they ask the team for biometric Iroquois passports?

Une équipe de lacrosse, un sport imaginé par les Amérindiens et pratiqué notamment aux Etats-Unis, a eu bien de la chance. Après une première tentative infructueuse, les joueurs - des Indiens iroquois - ont eu l’autorisation de quitter le pays pour se rendre en Angleterre avec un passeport délivré par les autorités de la tribu. Bon, cette autorisation n’est valable qu’une fois. Elle a été arrachée à l’administration in extremis par la secrétaire d’Etat Hillary Clinton qui est intervenue pour plaider ce dossier… Mais surtout restent deux questions en suspens. L’équipe iroquoise obtiendra-telle pour autant des visas britanniques pour se rendre aux championnats du monde de ce sport original qui ont lieu à Manchester ? On le lui souhaite : cette reconnaissance de la nation iroquoise devrait faire chaud au cœur de tous ces joueurs. Mais surtout, on aimerait savoir - quand on connaît les exigences des Etats-Unis en matière de passeports - s’ils ont demandé à l’équipe des passeports iroquois biométriques ?

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