The happy hunting ground is a concept of the afterlife associated with the Native Americans in the United States.
[2] The phrase first appears in 1823 in The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper: "Hawk-eye!
"[3]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.
[5] In 1911, Sioux physician Charles Eastman wrote that the phrase "is modern and probably borrowed, or invented by the white man.
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