"The teams participating in the World Lacrosse Championships in England represent 30 nations... The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse and, in a rare example of international recognition of American Indian sovereignty, they participate at every tournament as a separate nation... The 23 players have passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy, a group of six Indian nations overseeing land that stretches from upstate New York into Ontario, Canada. The U.S. government says it will only let players back into the country if they have U.S. passports..." The US Government is committing an atrocity! Citizens of nations around the world are permitted to travel through other nations. That the Iroquois are essentially landlocked is also a part of the intended forced assimilation the US has been attempting for centuries now and it needs to STOP.
May the Seneca Smokeshop and the Seneca Nation insist upon their sovereignty and open a duty free shop and may UPS, FedEx, and DHL all defend their right to do business with the sovereign American Indian nations with no more interference than when shipping to and from the other 100 or so nations around the world! The US insistence that American Indian nations get the worst of both worlds through "dependent independence" is and has always been illegal and it's long past time for the US to clean up its act.
"The British government, meanwhile, won't give the players visas if they cannot guarantee they'll be allowed to go home..." Shame on you Britain!