0000006691 00000 n This is not the first time we have encountered such problems. The Grand Council has mandated the HDC to work with both the United States and Canadian Governments regarding the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). The Continental Congress later published a pamphlet describing a similar prophecy, and it also was published in France in 1777, before the French threw their public support behind the colonists. Traditionally located in New York State between the Genesee River and Canandaigua, the Seneca still occupy areas in Western New York mainly on the Cattaraugus, Allegany and Tonawanda reservations. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Coronavirus Pandemic Update for Oneida Indian Nation Members, Oneida Indian Nation Office of Economic Development, Fast Facts: Democracy and the Haudenosaunee, We use cookies for best experience on website. 0000041423 00000 n The main purpose of these documents is to ease border crossing for Haudenosaunee citizens, since Canada and the United States have stiffened their security requirements. The Confederacy would not agree to this because we are not Canadian or American citizens. Enterprises Too often, our passports are denied by the very countries that took our land. The Christian establishment set up a system to steal children from the tribes in proximity to the major cities of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Similarities between the Great Law and the U.S. Constitution include provision for a federal government, with internal sovereignty retained by the member nations or states; the concept that the office is more important than the person who holds the office; the ideal of servitude, rather than lordship, of the officeholders; representation and open debate; checks and balances to prevent too much power from being vested in one person or one branch of government and government through persuasion rather than coercion. I acknowledge that we are all weary of the negative and tragic narrative as concerns the treatment of America's indigenous peoples but it does bear repeating here. The Monégasque passport is issued to citizens of Monaco for international travel. This posting was triggered by an article in "Two Row Times", 15 July 2015, p.4, entitled, Haudenosaunee U-19 women will not travel on a foreign passport.Before addressing the specifics of this article, it is necessary to explore the facts in relation to the assumption that would lead some at Six Nations to consider a Canadian passport to be a "foreign" one. The Haudenosaunee have been traveling on our own passports for over 30 years and they have been accepted into dozens of countries. We are citizens of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, as we have been for millennia before the Europeans’ arrival. Specifically, the HDC is obligated to interface with the US and Canadian Governments regarding the political and technical development of the new Haudenosaunee ID cards and passports. The Founding Fathers adopted the symbols of the American bald eagle and of several arrows together in creating the seal of the United States. And sometimes no reason was needed…. © Copyright Oneida Indian Nation 2020. 0000003001 00000 n Turning Stone PropertiesOrdinances & Codes Back then, when the British asked the Americans if they would let us return after the tournament, the Americans were in a bind. 0000020700 00000 n A gesture of reconciliation now would only strengthen the fabric of America. 0000012849 00000 n But, fortunately, Native Americans cannot be seen as "the vanishing Americans" of the Eisenhower era in the fifties. At this point, we can’t guarantee that the cards will be accepted by the United States and Canada. The Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team was prevented from competing in the world championships in England in 2010 because the United Kingdom maintained that the existing passports did not meet security requirements. 0000008062 00000 n The five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy — also known as the Iroquois League or League of the Five Nations — occupied an area from the Genesee River on the west, through the Finger Lakes regions, to the Hudson River on the east in what is known as the Eastern Woodlandscultural area. 2037 Dream Catcher Plaza All rights reserved. The long-standing plan for assimilation through government forced boarding schools and termination have failed.