Ech-up-wy's Vision of a Golden Medallion

“According to an 1881 account, Ech-up-wy’s first visionary experience came in 1859, when “an Indian man” visited him in a dream just before he left for a hunt. The visitor told Ech-up-wy not to eat the blood of the animals he hunted and gave him counsel on how to pray. To demonstrate the power of his message, the visitor showed Ech-up-wy a golden medallion on a chain and told him where to go to find it. The next day, Ech-up-wy and his family found the medallion where he had been told to go in his dream. Unfortunately, the 1881 account of Ech-up-wy’s vision is incomplete. Decades later, a Euro-American Latter-day Saint familiar with the vision clarified that an arrow in the medallion would show Ech-up-wy where to go to obtain food. After several years, Ech-up-wy dreamed that the medallion was lost and awoke to find that it had gone missing in the night. — Native Saints: A Database of Latter-day Saint Native Americans, John Moemberg”