The term “cargo cults” was coined in 1945 to describe remote tribes – found mostly in Melanesia – that pray for the return of the various goods that appeared, seemingly miraculously, during occupation of their islands by colonialists. The two key phases of this occupation were the turn of the 20th century and World War II, during the Allied forces’ Pacific campaign. The earliest known cargo cult – Fiji’s Tuka Movement – is thought to date back to 1885.