Too often,the passports of indigenous nations are denied by the very countries that took our landI’m a citizen of the six nation Haudenosaunee, commonly known as the Iroquois confederacy, and one of the original peoples of what is called North and South America. We travel the world on our own passports,embracing the full rights extended by the rules of international law and diplomacy. Too often, our passports are denied by the very countries that took our land. They call them “fantasy documents”, or but they are not.domestic is the land of the Six Nations – the Mohawk,Oneida, Onondaga, or Cayuga,Seneca and Tuscarora – which straddles the US-Canada border in New York, Quebec and Ontario. We are a sovereign nation recognized by the United States under the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua signed by George Washington. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com