Iroquois national indoor lacrosse team 3 teams, with the Iroquois West team winning bronze. The tournament changed its name to the World Junior Lacrosse Championships in 2016 and added an under–17 division. The Iroquois had three under–19 teams – West, East, and Grand River – and an under–17 team. The Iroquois West team took gold, with the Iroquois Grand River winning bronze. The under–17 Iroquois team defeated Canada's under–17 squad to win gold. After missing a year, the 2018 World Junior Lacrosse Championship changed format again, this time an indoor under-20 round robin tournament featuring the United States, Canada and the Iroquois national teams. With
Cherokee word for Cherokee. Many theories, though none proven, abound about the origin of the name "Cherokee". It may have originally been derived from the Choctaw word "Cha-la-kee", which means "people who live in the mountains", or Choctaw "Chi-luk-ik-bi", meaning "people who live in the cave country". The earliest Spanish transliteration of the name, from 1755, is recorded as "Tchalaquei". Another theory is that "Cherokee" derives from a Lower Creek word "Cvlakke" ("chuh-log-gee"). The Iroquois Five Nations based in New York have historically called the Cherokee "Oyata'ge'ronoñ" ("inhabitants of the cave country").Also the word Cherokee means “people of different speech.” Anthropologists