Thinking about The Shining (1980) more specifically because I watched it the other day ... if we want to have a pretty generous reading, yknow, Jack is textually explicitly racist in a way that we could interpret all of this as On Purpose. Especially considering we don't see any Native ghosts, just white men going insane and killing people, as they are wont to do. The donner party shoutout towards the beginning is a fun gesture to this white people tendency. But generally this trope is executed in a way that's really not self aware it's just spooky ndns. And I'm not convinced King or Kubrick were *really* thinking about it that wokely, either
The implication seems more vague about this place, the land itself, remembering the violence that happened here & driving people to madness and/or maybe possessing them, influencing their behavior.. It's a little ambiguous. Which I love supernatural ambiguity as you know but I really cannot stress enough that if ndns fight you trying to desecrate their graves you're the bad guy like that part is pretty cut and dry actually