SUNSHINEandSPIRIT's video: The Church-Happy Hunting Ground

Instrumental from the church off their 1986 album Heyday,hope you enjoy,thanks for watching. The Happy Hunting Ground was the name given to the concept of the afterlife by several of the great plains Native American tribes, as well as the Iroquois, Cherokee and Algonquians. It is an afterlife conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited. The Sioux commonly believe that after death, the spirit of the deceased person goes to the Happy Hunting Ground, unless they were scalped during their lifetime. This belief corresponds with the general Sioux belief that everything has a spirit; including trees, rocks, rivers and almost every natural entity. This therefore leads to the existence of an afterlife. The Native American tribes were highly spiritual with many spiritual dances such as the Sun Dance and the Ghost Dance, which directly refers to the spirits of the dead returning to life. The name Happy Hunting Ground indicates the characteristics of this particular Native American afterlife tradition: the Happy Hunting Ground resembled the living world, but with much better weather and animals that didn't run away, such as rabbit, deer and buffalo.