Unwanted and ambivalent citizenship 83 Figure 6.1 Iroquois national lacrosse player Marty Ward, of Syracuse, looks across the harbour to the Statue of Liberty National Monument from the dock of Battery Park in New York (Mike Greenlar, Advance Media, New York, 2010). contesting either to submit to citizenism or to bear the burden of the existing citi zenist State system without acknowledgement within it. One common way to defend the documentary requirements like those that grounded Ward and his teammates is security. In 2004 and 2008, the United States imposed new security requirements on documents used at its borders.11 This impacted upon the ability of indigenous governments to make documents that would meet these requirements, with two sorts of implications. On the one hand, this measure demonstrated the power of the United States to decide for the whole territorial space the sort of documents could be used. On the other hand, it in fact forced individuals who wanted to travel to use US documents. Tracing the recent history of lacrosse teams alone uncovers inconsistency in whether the Haudenosaunee travel documents are recognised. Their recognition seems to depend upon decisions from those recognised States that control existing borders and territories. In 2012, members of the male under-19 team travelled to Finland on Haudenosaunee passports, while in 2015 members of the female under-19 team were again unable to travel to the UK (other recent tournaments have been held in North America, so these issues did 11 Haygood 2010 ibid.; Kingston 2011 ibid.