Dimick B. Huntington

Nauvoo Legion Dimick Baker Huntington (May 26, 1808 – February 1, 1879) was a leading Indian interpreter in early Utah Territory.

Huntington first enters the annals of Mormon history as the first to see Joseph Smith land in Illinois after his escape from jail in Missouri.

[5] In October 1841, Huntington brought the testimony that led to the excommunication of John A. Hicks, the elders quorum president in Nauvoo, for falsehood and schismatic conversation.

[11] In 1868, Huntington was among those who negotiated the end of Utah's Black Hawk War.He commissioned a 22-foot-long missionary panorama of C. C. A. Christensen, showing Bible and Book of Mormon scenes to the Native Americans in 1871.

Speaking to the Indians in their own language, Hill showed the missionary panorama and taught about the Bible and Book of Mormon.

The Indians later moved north to southern Idaho and named the new community Washakie, after a Shoshone chief.

Dimick B. Huntington in his military uniform