Legend of the Rainbow Warriors - wikipedia Legend of the Rainbow Warriors This article is about the legend and the book. For other uses, see Rainbow Warrior. Since the early 1970s, a legend of Rainbow Warriors has inspired some environmentalists and hippies with a belief that their movement is the fulfillment of a Native American prophecy. Usually the `` prophecy '' is claimed to be Hopi or Cree. However, this `` prophecy '' is not Native American at all, but rather from a 1962 Evangelical Christian religious tract, titled Warriors of the Rainbow by William Willoya and Vinson Brown from Naturegraph Publishers. Brown is the founder and owner of Naturegraph Publishers. The roots of that myth go back to a book called Warriors of the Rainbow. It was basically an evangelical Christian tract which was published in 1962. If anything, it was an attack on Native culture. It was an attempt to evangelize within the Native American community. Contents 1 Origins 2 Response 3 See also 4 References 5 Literature 6 External links Origins The modern story has been misrepresented as ancient prophecy. While this falsification may have been done consciously by the creators of the story, those who pass the story on may sincerely believe the story is authentic. This phenomenon is an example of what scholar Michael I. Niman calls `` fakelore. '' While there are variations on the theme, especially as it has become popularized in Internet memes, the common thread in all versions of the story is that a time of crisis will come to the Earth, that people of many races will come together to save the planet, and it is always erroneously credited as being a Native American or First Nations prophecy : `` It is said there will be a time when the trees are dying, blah, blah, blah. There will be a tribe of people who come and save the Earth and they will be called the Rainbows. '' Some modern versions of the fictitious story specifically state that this new `` tribe '' will inherit the ways of the Native Americans, or that Native ways will die out to be replaced by the new ways of the `` Rainbow '' people. The legend said ( the Native Americans ) would also be joined by many of their light - skinned brothers and sisters, who would in fact be the reincarnate souls of the Indians who were killed or enslaved by the first light - skinned settlers. It was said that the dead souls of these first people would return in bodies of all different colours : red, white, yellow and black. Together and unified, like the colours of the rainbow, these people would teach all of the peoples of the world how to have love and reverence for Mother Earth, of whose very stuff we human beings are also made. Warriors of the Rainbow relates these fictitious `` Indian '' prophecies to the Second Coming of Christ and has been described as purveying `` a covert anti-Semitism throughout, while evangelizing against traditional Native American spirituality. '' The book The Greenpeace Story, states that Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter was given a copy of Warriors of the Rainbow by a wandering dulcimer maker in 1969 and he passed it around on the first expedition of the Do n't Make a Wave Committee, the precursor of Greenpeace. The legend inspired the name of three Greenpeace ships, Rainbow Warrior, used in environmental protection protests as well as the name of the hippie group, the Rainbow Family. Native American author and poet Sherman Alexie has addressed this belief in the `` inner Indian '' and the ways `` American whites have co-opted Indian culture, '' notably in his poem, `` How to Write the Great American Indian Novel '' : White people must carry an Indian deep inside themselves. If the interior Indian is male then he must be a warrior, especially if he is inside a white man.... In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts. Response In 2015, a group of Native American academics and writers issued a statement against the Rainbow Family members who are `` appropriating and practicing faux Native ceremonies and beliefs. These actions, although Rainbows may not realize, dehumanize us as an indigenous Nation because they imply our culture and humanity, like our land, is anyone 's for the taking. '' The signatories specifically named this misappropriation as `` cultural exploitation. '' a group that cites a fictitious `` Native American prophecy '' as informing their self - identification as `` warriors of the rainbow '' and willfully appropriates Native cultural practices, is not only adventurist and dangerous, but offensive to many of us who advance and continue to defend the spiritual, the cultural, the sacred, and, most importantly, the political vitality and vision of the Oceti Sakowin. See also Cultural appropriation Plastic shaman References ^ Jump up to : Interview with Michael Niman ^ Jump up to : Niman, Michael ( 1997 ). People of the Rainbow : Nomadic Utopia. University of Tennessee Press. pp. 136 -- 137. ISBN 978 - 0870499890. Jump up ^ About Naturegraph ^ Jump up to : Morton, Chris and Thomas, Ceri Louise ( 1998 ) The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls : A Real Life Detective Story of the Ancient World. Vermont, Bear & Company ISBN 978 - 1879181540. Jump up ^ Brown, Michael ( 1989 ). The Greenpeace Story. Dorling Kindersley. pp. 12 -- 13. ISBN 978 - 1879431027. Jump up ^ Aull, Felice ( 2009 ) Alexie, Sherman `` How to Write the Great American Indian Novel ''. New York University, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. Jump up ^ Alexie, Sherman ( 1996 ) `` How to Write the Great American Indian Novel '' from The Summer of Black Widows. Hanging Loose Press. ^ Jump up to : Estes, Nick ; et al. ( 14 July 2015 ). `` Protect He Sapa, Stop Cultural Exploitation ''. Indian Country Today Media Network. Archived from the original on 2016 - 04 - 03. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 29. a group that cites a fictitious `` Native American prophecy '' as informing their self - identification as `` warriors of the rainbow '' and willfully appropriates Native cultural practices, is not only adventurist and dangerous, but offensive to many of us who advance and continue to defend the spiritual, the cultural, the sacred, and, most importantly, the political vitality and vision of the Oceti Sakowin. CS1 maint : Explicit use of et al. ( link ) Literature Willoya, William, and Vinson Brown. Warriors of the Rainbow : Strange and Prophetic Indian Dreams. Healdsburg, California : Naturegraph, 1962. Dahl, Arthur. `` Brown, Vinson. '' In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, edited by Bron Taylor, 227. London & New York : Continuum International, 2005. Deloria, Philip J... Playing Indian. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998. Niman, Michael I. People of the Rainbow : A Nomadic Utopia. Nashville : University of Tennessee Press, 1997. 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Question: which novel inspired the creation of the greenpeace organization
Answer: Warriors of the Rainbow