https://ictnews.org/news/joe-biden-to-support-haudenosaunee-nationals
"The Haudenosaunee Nationals’ women and men lacrosse teams have been outspoken
about competing under their own flag at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles and
Wednesday they will get support from a top world leader, President Joe Biden.
During his address to hundreds of Indigenous leaders at the 2023 White House
Tribal Nations Summit, Biden will express his support for the Haudenosaunee
Confederacy to field their own team and compete under their own flag.
At the summit, Biden will also announce “far-ranging executive order that
really starts with that value, which is our nation-to-nation relationship is
about respect,” Tom Perez, senior advisor to the president and director of the
White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, told ICT.
The Biden administration will be advocating for a narrowly-scoped exception.
“We certainly are most grateful to President Biden and the U.S. government for
their very candid support of our inclusion in the Olympics,” Leo Nolan,
executive director for the Haudenosaunee Nationals Lacrosse, told ICT.
One way the teams can compete is through an exception that can only be
determined by the International Olympic Committee. While this decision is out
of the hands of the hosting country, the support from one of the most
influential world leaders would be monumental."
Via Muse, who wrote:
Now this is interesting.
The Haudenosaunee never ceded their lands to the US, and by treaty should be
considered an independent nation. Accepting these teams playing at the
Olympics under their own flag may set a precedent for legal
recognition–maybe. The UN still does not appear to accept representatives
from Indigenous nations in the General Council. That right seems to be
lacking, and given instead to the invaders of countries such as the US,
Canada, Australia, parts of South America, and more.
Cheers,
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