enrolled in the wrong tribe. Quitiquit maintained that the issue had to do with a disputed election, in which her family had supported Eddie "EJ" Crandall, who won the election but whose victory was set aside by the claim by Avila that he should be terminated from membership and was disqualified from running in the election. As a result of the disenrollments, Quitiquit and her family lost their tribal housing benefits, health care, jobs, education benefits and cultural ties, as well as retirement benefits and elder meal services. She worked to raise funds to mount a legal battle against the termination of membership. In 2010, the Bureau of Indian Affairs refused to intervene, stating that the issue of tribal membership was an internal governance decision. After the ruling, the Tribal Council convened a Tribal Court in 2011 to evaluate eviction orders for the family members. During the trials, Quitiquit died and her family vowed to continue the quest for reinstatement to their tribe. Death and legacy Quitiquit died on December 23, 2011 at her home in Nice, Lake County, California. In 2012, the Tribal Court issued eviction notices for her family and posthumously for Quitiquit. In 2015, Crandall was elected Tribal Chair and led a campaign to readmit disenrolled tribal members. Two years later, under his leadership, the Tribal Council voted to reinstate all members of the Quitiquit family and others who had been terminated from tribal membership in 2008. The reinstatement was the first known case in the country where a tribe reversed its decision on membership termination without a court ruling. References Citations Bibliography and and and 1941 births 2011 deaths People from Sacramento County, California Pomo people Native American activists Native American basket weavers University of California, Berkeley alumni American artists of Filipino descent 20th-century American women artists Activists from California Administrators Native American women artists 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native Americans 20th-century Native American women 21st-century Native American women