Dimick B. Huntington notes that Indians saw Americans as Mormons enemies.
Dimick Huntington, Letter to Brigham Young, May 18, 1849, Brigham Young Office Files, CR 1234 1, CHL
Yesterday an influential indian talked with me . . . he says the tabibues says (that is the French say) the Americans are not the Mormons friends & . . . they are a coming to kill off the mormons and go back again