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
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