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?
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