'The time is coming when the issue of membership will hit all tribes. Last year, the feud was over the question that concerns Louise Smith and Indians on other reservations: membership eligibility, or, who is an Indian? Stanley Crooks in turn defeated Prescott three years ago.
In 1984, Leonard Prescott won the tribal chairmanship by defeating Stanley Crooks' late father, Norman, who in 1982 brought bingo to the reservation.