Young, Quentin H.

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 Ogla...