<P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 ." </P> <P> 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 Don'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 . </P> <P> 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": </P>

Which novel inspired the creation of the greenpeace organization