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.

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[BethUrsa]

I love this song! Thanks for shering!

[SUNSHINEandSPIRIT]

My pleasure,thank you

[detroittigersfan119]

The Church is a wonderful band. I love how atmospheric their music is. Nice video --- I love the pictures you've chosen. The information in the sidebar was very useful too! Thanks! I'm about 1/8th Native American, =)

[SUNSHINEandSPIRIT]

Thanks abby,glad you appreciate the vid and song

[Kohntarkosz]

One of my favorite tracks from The Church. Nice video.

[SUNSHINEandSPIRIT]

Thank you kohntarkosz,one of my faves too,i have a few church vids up if you wish to look,thanks for stopping by.

[Nigelxman]

Heyday will always remain my favourite Church album. It truly takes me to wonderful, mystical places as corny as that sounds. :-)

[2syrianhearts]

memories...me locked in my room, listening to this song, dreaming and going everywhere by my immagination!!!!

[nickburrows70]

@fandorinmusic Not really. 80's music was very eclectic. Back then labels would give bands 3-8 albums to get in the black and a lot of the time were given artistic freedom to make that happen. Today's industry is just a bullshit meat grinder that;s interested in xhundred % profit on album1. Just look at the A&R 'experts' on Idol. It's a shame, but true

[nickburrows70]

love this song.. one of my favourite church songs (even though Kilbey doesn't sing it.. well sort of mutters).. love the string arrangement.. perfection

[fandorinmusic]

this is so out-of-everything with 1985...it's almost frightening...

[gruesomebeaver]

im not trying to offend anyone, but to those who ever played runescape, doesn't this sound like their music?

[vanes9066]

I love the church,Native AmericaN (this is a SHRINE of peaceful reflectiveness..)stuff,etc..