How the Rainbow Came to Be – Lakota One bright summer day when all the flowers were out, nodding their heads in the breeze and proudly showing their many beautiful colors, the Mighty Spirit overheard one of the older flowers saying to another: "I wonder where we will go when winter comes and we all must die? It doesn't seem fair. We do our share to make the earth a beautiful place to live in. Should we not also go to a happy hunting ground of our own?" The Mighty Spirit thought about this and decided that they should not die when winter came. So now after a refreshing shower, we may look up in the sky and see all the pretty, colored flowers of the past year making a beautiful rainbow across the heavens.