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Iroquois’ Appeal to FIL General Assembly Set to Begin

On April 26, the Federation of International Lacrosse released the Blue Division schedule for the 2014 FIL World Championship. The headline was the tournament opening U.S.-Canada game, and the release didn’t include the word “Iroquois.”

It was the first public acknowledgement of the complicated position the FIL and the Iroquois find themselves in subsequent to the Iroquois’ absence at the 2010 World Championships in Manchester, England. That absence directly led to the Iroquois’ omission from the 2014 Blue Division.
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US LACROSSE POSITION RELATIVE TO IROQUOIS NATIONALS CONTROVERSY

Dear Fellow FIL Member Nations & Delegates:

Please accept this communication as the formal position of US Lacrosse relative to the current Iroquois Nationals controversy.

US Lacrosse is very disappointed that the Iroquois Nationals will not be competing in the Blue Division of the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) Men’s World Championship because their lacrosse team is one of the world’s best and represents the very essence of our sport.
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AN EMMY-WINNING PRODUCER’S DOC ABOUT LACROSSE’S NATIVE ORIGINS

How did your film get started?
I started teaching a course in the fall semester of 2012 called the History of Sport. We took students from the first accounts of sport being observed in the United States—which was lacrosse, when the Jesuits saw it in the 1630s for the first time—all the way up through the first Kentucky Derby, the origins of baseball, the invention of basketball, Teddy Roosevelt’s role in founding the NCAA and up to the present day. That was the first two months of the semester—the last month of the semester, we focused on one topic. This year it was lacrosse. Each of our 15 students had to do a final research project that focused on lacrosse, and we’ve taken that research and hired a production company to work with us.
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