Mystic Visions: Black Elk's Great Vision Clarified - Brossura

Quentin H Young was born to Rose Mary Likens Young and Mayo Beckford Young. His mother’s side of the family has Lakota (Sioux) Sicangu (Brule) lineage; his father’s side is Welsh. His mother’s grandmother was Eliza Kathrine Milton, a full blood Sicangu Lakota borne in 1854 in Nebraska. In 1855, a soldier took Eliza from the battlefield of the Blue Water Fight and gave her to the Miltons of Missouri to raise. Quentin has been involved in the Lakota spiritual way of life since 1950 at age 6, and, by 1989, he began keeping a canupa (pipe). He has participated in all of the seven rites of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) ceremonies. Since 1990, he has studied Nicholas Black Elk’s Great Vision of the nation’s hoop and the flowering tree. From 1998 through 2004, he lectured at the College of DuPage, Illinois, presenting a study of Black Elk’s Great Vision through a three-hour accredited course in Social Science called Native Americans and their Mystic Visions. He has also lectured at several colleges and universities throughout Illinois with respect to Black Elk’s vision and the Lakota spiritual way of life. Quentin served as paratrooper in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne from 1962 through 1965, and retired as a design engineer after 30 years. During this period, he designed and developed a complete set of prison locking devices for three corporations within the United States. Today, many of his lock designs are in use throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Quentin lives in Illinois with his wife, Ginger, he has two grown children and two grandchildren and Sapa, his black cat who sat on the desk the whole time watching him write this book.