Seriously why does being native american give you a carte blanche to fuck with other countries rules...sorry i'll rephrase the entire world's rules? I understand they're Uroquois and their identity is important to them, but seriously they're American and Canadian, you cant just turn up in Britain with a Handwritten document and expect to get let in. Every other person living in Canada and the USA has a freakin electronic passport and applies for work visas in the proper format.
They're saying its a race issue now, please gimme a fucking break, I dont give a damn who you are, you can come in if you follow the rules. Until the Uroquois declare an independent state then they cant use this documentation to travel to other people's countries. I just don't understand why they think it's one rule for them and one rule for everyone else. I'm very sorry about their history but this is the 21st century and what Buffalo Bill did to them is sort of immaterial now.
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From BBC
Officials told the team they would be granted a visa at immigration only with documents considered valid by the UK, including US or Canadian passports.
The announcement came after the US cleared them to travel at the behest of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The team says using other passports would be an attack on their identity.
The Iroquois Confederacy of six Indian nations oversees tribal land that stretches from upstate New York into the Canadian province of Ontario.
The UK's decision not to accept the confederacy's travel documents came a day before the opening day at the Lacrosse World Championships in Manchester, during which the Iroquois team were due to play England.
Only hours earlier, team members born within US borders had been granted a "one-time-only waiver" by the state department at the request of Mrs Clinton allowing them to make the trip without US passports.
The team, which ranks fourth in the world in lacrosse, has always travelled on the confederacy's documents as an expression of their Iroquois identity, but US officials had said they do not meet new, stricter passports standards.
"There was flexibility there to grant this kind of one-time waiver given the unique circumstances of this particular trip," state department spokesman PJ Crowley told reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
An example of the Iroquois passport
The Canadian-born players were also experiencing problems obtaining leave to travel from Ottawa when British officials spoke to the team.
Federation of International Lacrosse spokesman Ron Balls said in a statement on the championship website on Wednesday that the Iroquois team would forfeit their opening game if it did not arrive on time.
The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse, as early as 1,000 years ago.
