Iroquois passport Iroquois passport The Iroquois passport or Haudenosaunee passport is a form of identification and an "expression of sovereignty" used by the nationals of the Iroquois League (Iroquois: "Haudenosaunee"). The Iroquois government has issued passports since at least 1923, when Haudenosaunee authorities issued a passport to Cayuga statesman Deskaheh to travel to the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva. The Iroquois passport evolved from negotiations with the U.S. State Department, Canada, Britain and other countries and has been used since 1977. In 2005 Japan allowed a delegation travelling on the Iroquois passport to visit that country for the World Congress of
Iroquois translate as "murderers". The Five Nations historically referred to themselves by a different autonym, Haudenosaunee, meaning "People of the Longhouse". It is also occasionally preferred by scholars of Native American history, who consider the name "Iroquois" to be derogatory in origin. This name derives from two phonetically similar but etymologically distinct words in the Seneca language: "Hodínöhšö:ni:h", meaning "those of the extended house," and "Hodínöhsö:ni:h", meaning "house builders". The name "Haudenosaunee" first appears in English in Lewis Henry Morgan (1851), where it is written as "Ho-dé-no-sau-nee". The spelling "Hotinnonsionni" is also attested from later in the nineteenth century. An alternate