Happy hunting ground
Template:Short description Template:Sister project The happy hunting ground is a concept of the afterlife associated with the Native Americans in the United States.[1] The phrase most likely originated with the British settlers' interpretation of the Indian description.[2]
History
The phrase first appears in 1823 in The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper:
Historian Charles L. Cutler suggests that Cooper "either coined or gave currency to" the use of the phrase "happy hunting ground" as a term for the afterlife.[3] The phrase also began to appear soon after in the writing of Washington Irving.[4]
In 1911, Sioux physician Charles Eastman wrote that the phrase "is modern and probably borrowed, or invented by the white man."[5]
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