Stateless Indigenous People(s) 105 Deskaheh27 who travelled using that passport to the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva to file the grievances of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois people. While Chief Deskaheh was not admitted to the League of Nations meetings, his famous voyage was not in vein. For a long time, other countries recognized the Iroquois document, and it even led to an agreement between the Iroquois League and the US Department of State, Canada, the United Kingdom and other nations, to accept the Iroquois passport, in 1977.28 After the 9/11 attacks, however, things began to change.29 In 2010, for instance, members of the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team missed out on competing in the world championships because the British government had refused to recognize the low-tech passport issued by the Six Nations Confederacy. Not the incident itself, but rather the reactions by the Haudeno­ saunee/Iroquois people to this incident, and other similar incidents,30 are illustrative for the emanating self-esteem and confidence: ‘A passport is more than a key to the world — it is an expression of national identity symbolizing sovereignty and peaceful resistance.’31 And: ‘Your passport is kind of a means of showing who you are in the world and we’re Haudenosaunee, so carrying our own passport, we’re able to represent ourselves as such.’32 Another interesting quote to be cited: ‘We’re not going to carry a U.S. passport or a Canadian passport to an international competition as the Iroquois. We have our passport. We’ve been carrying it for a long time.’33 Within the U.S., federally recognized Native American tribal documents are a common and valid form 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 =article&id=4825%3Arights-of-indigenous-peoples-gained-international-attention -support-in-2010&catid=51&Itemid=27> accessed 21 October 2013. ‘Levi General’, (Dictionary of Canadian Biography) <http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ deskaheh_15E.html> ‘The Last Speech of Deskaheh’, (Indymedia), http://rochester .indymedia.org/node/878> both accessed 21 October 2013. ‘Haudenosaunee Passports’, (Iroquois Museum) <http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/ PASSPORTS.htm> accessed 21 October 2013. ‘Ottawa in ‘explosive’ situation over rejected Iroquois passport’ National Post (11 July 2011) <http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/11/ottawa-in-explosive-situation-over-rejected -iroquois-passport/> accessed 21 October 2013. Ibid. ‘Six Nations Passports more than Travel Document say Users’ The Star (15 July 2010), <http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/07/15/six_nations_passport_more _than_travel_document_say_users.html> accessed 21 October 2013. Ibid. Ibid. tilburg law review 19 (2014) 98-107