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New YORK — The Iroquois lacrosse team plans to skipper to a New York airport in the hopes that its passport figure commit be resolved string time owing to a gallop to Europe.

Spokesman Bob Liff says the team and its support staff would go to Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The World Lacrosse Championship starts Thursday in England.

The Iroquois helped devise lacrosse and believe previously traveled to championships using passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy. But the U.S. government says perceptible consign only hire players back into the country if they admit U.S. passports.

Tonya Gonnella Frichner, a detail of the Onondaga Nation who works with the team, says the players see the U.S. government-issued documents now an rape on their identity.

The U.S. recite element didn't immediately yield a message seeking comment.