The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport internationally.
In 2006, the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Program signed a partnership with Nike, Inc. in which Nike will provide the Nationals with Nike-brand uniforms, clothing, footwear, and other equipment, and team members will assist in the research and development of sustainable sportswear that uses non-toxic dyes and biodegradable organic cotton.
In 2008, the Iroquois Confederacy, under the name Haudenosaunee Nation, became a full member of the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations at that organization's final meeting before it merged with the ILF to form the sport's new unified governing body, the Federation of International Lacrosse.
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“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)