1. Luwana Quitiquit was a Native American administrator, activist, and basket weaver.
16 Facts About Luwana Quitiquit
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Luwana Quitiquit's career was as an administrator for various California Indian organizations.
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Luwana Quitiquit fought the action claiming it was politically motivated until her death.
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Luwana Kay Quitiquit was born on November 13,1941, in Isleton, Sacramento County, California to Marie and Claro A Quitiquit.
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Luwana Quitiquit's mother was an Eastern Pomo and a member of the Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California.
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Luwana Quitiquit's father was from Caoayan, in the Ilocos Sur province of the Philippines.
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Luwana Quitiquit attended the David Bixler Elementary School in Tracy, California and graduated from Tracy Joint Union High School.
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Luwana Quitiquit worked to obtain state and federal grants to assist in community infrastructure projects for the Coyote Valley Reservation and Hopland, Laytonville, Manchester-Point Arena, Robinson, and Upper Lake Rancherias.
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Simultaneously with her work on the council, Luwana Quitiquit worked in Redwood Valley, California as deputy director of the Consolidated Tribal Health Project and participated in educational seminars.
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When she retired, Luwana Quitiquit began working on and exhibiting her handicrafts more regularly.
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Luwana Quitiquit organized a system to train Pomo weavers and preserve the traditional craft.
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Luwana Quitiquit taught one member from each of the seven Lake County Pomo tribes, who in turn trained others.
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Luwana Quitiquit operated the Pomo Fine Art Gallery in Lucerne to give native artists a venue to market their works.
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Luwana 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.
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Luwana Quitiquit worked to raise funds to mount a legal battle against the termination of membership.
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Luwana Quitiquit died on December 23,2011, at her home in Nice, Lake County, California.