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  2. Happy hunting ground - Wikipedia

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    The phrase first appears in 1823 in The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper: "Hawk-eye! My fathers call me to the happy hunting-grounds." [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. [4]

  3. The whole nine yards - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, Taylor-Blake discovered the 1956 and 1957 uses in Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground, and later that year she and Fred R. Shapiro found the "whole six yards" examples from the 1912–1921 period, which received substantial publicity. [15] In 2013, Taylor-Blake posted her discovery of the Mitchell Commercial uses from the 1907–1914 period ...

  4. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Happy hunting ground Dead Informal Used to describe the afterlife according to Native Americans Hara-kiri (Ritual) suicide by disembowelment Japanese See Seppuku. Often misspelled as Hari-kari. Have one foot in the grave [2] To be close to death because of illness or age Informal, sometimes humorous: History Dead Informal

  5. Wild Bill Hickok - Wikipedia

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    Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. Utter. Hickok is known to have fatally shot six men and is suspected of having killed a seventh (McCanles). Despite his reputation, [74] Hickok was buried in the Ingelside Cemetery, Deadwood's original graveyard.

  6. Happy Hunting - Wikipedia

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    Happy hunting ground, a concept of the afterlife associated with Native Americans in the United States Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Happy Hunting .

  7. Comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    The happy hunting ground is a concept of the afterlife associated with Native Americans in the United States. [1] The phrase possibly originated with Anglo-Saxon settlers interpretation of their respective description.

  8. New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia

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    In Ethiopia, the government officially owns all land, but occupants are supposed to retain some customary rights. Forty-two percent of land in Gambella was being leased or marketed to investors, according to a 2011 report by the Oakland Institute, a U.S.-based advocacy group that’s critical of widespread transfers of land to corporations in ...

  9. List of Bergen, New Netherland placename etymologies

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    Said to mean resting place for the departed or happy hunting ground since this area of Wyckoff, according to tradition, was the burial place of many Native Americans, possibly including Oratam, sagamore of the Hackensack Indians. [79] Contemporary schikamik meaning hole or grave or machtschikamikunk meaning a burial place. [80]