NEW YORK – Members of an Iroquois lacrosse team who refuse to travel on U.S. passports were barred from getting on a flight Tuesday to the sport's world championship tournament.
The 23 members of the New York-based squad arrived at a Delta terminal at Kennedy International Airport wearing team jackets and shirts. Their manager, Ansley Jemison, didn't expect to be allowed to board their flight to Amsterdam and wasn't surprised to be turned away at the check-in desk.
U.S. officials previously informed the team that new security rules for international travelers meant that their old passports — low-tech, partly handwritten documents issued by a tribal authority — wouldn't be honored.
Samantha Gross, AP
Just another case of the white man trying to keep the Native Americans down. Handwritten passports aren't legit? Since when? This is all news to me. The Native Americans cannot catch a break. Whats next, they will have to go through the same processes as everyone else to open a casino? They have only had 200 years to recover from all the mistreatment. Something tells me these passports had drawings instead of pictures of each person. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself.
P.S. Did you ever notice that Native American is the only race white parents feel comfortable dressing up their kids as for Halloween? Kinda strange. I say parents should feel free to dress their kids as all races because little kids being racist is hilarious.
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