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
Iroquois Iroquois reflected the continual need for more people in the Iroquois communities. Iroquois warriors were brave, but would only fight to the death if necessary, usually to protect their women and children; otherwise, the crucial concern for Iroquois chiefs was always to save manpower. The Canadian historian D. Peter MacLeod wrote that the Iroquois way of war was based on their hunting philosophy, where a successful hunter would bring down an animal efficiently without taking any losses to his hunting party, and in the same way, a successful war leader would inflict losses on the enemy without taking any losses