Scientific progress begins, philosophy thrives.
By means of America, Europe acquires a new dimension and emerges from its shadows. The start in affirming the rights of indigenous peoples is well underway in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. The gathering, in Virginia Beach, Virginia of some 600 representatives of indigenous peoples throughout the world, including Canadian and U.S. representatives of the Hopi, Shoshone, Comanche, Lakota, Mohawk, Cherokee, Seminole, Algon-quin, Cree, Micmac, Gwichen, Tlinget peoples. That has to be the government mismanagement of Trust Funds established in 1830 to pass along royalties from the sale of petroleum, timber and other natural resources into the native American Trust Account. Decades of negligence in handling the accounts finally forced the 300,000 native Americans to file a class action suit.