The Biden Administration has announced its support for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to compete in the 2028 Olympics with its own lacrosse team. The Confederacy has competed before in international games, but it will be up to the I.O.C. if it is allowed to enter the Olympic games.
The Confederacy is composed of indigenous people who lived in New York and Eastern Canada. You probably heard of the individual tribes: the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscarora. They were the people who invented the game of lacrosse.
Information for this article was taken from Matthew Futterman, “Biden Backs an Indigenous Team’s Push to Compete Under Its Own Flag in 2028,” New York Times, (Dec. 7, 2023), p. B12.
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