God Launches The Sovereign Central Bank of the First Nation's People

WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE

THE SOVEREIGN CENTRAL BANK
OF THE FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE

From GODSPEED Magazine’s exclusive interview
with Chief Charles Hohepa

BY DAVID AIKMAN

DISCOVERY?

Most Americans are comfortable celebrating Columbus Day in October each year to commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. He was an Italian captain financed by the king and queen of Spain in 1492.

But what most Americans don’t realize is that a sizable and growing number of inhabitants of nations in the Americas don’t recognize the discovery of America as a good thing for them. Many of those who object to the celebration are the indigenous peoples who had inhabited North and South America, sometimes for thousands of years previously.

Nobody can deny today that the arrival of the Europeans on the American side of the Atlantic totally altered the culture and politics of the nations who were living there at the time of the arrival of Columbus.

Monument to aboriginal war veterans in Confederation Park, Ottawa, Canada.
Photo by Padraic Ryan

The AsiaPacificForum comments
on the 2007 UN Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

But in an interesting illustration of the unpredictable developments of history, the United Nations in 2007 passed the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples in territories which were all subsequently colonized by outsiders.

The “Indians,” who were living in North America before its discovery by Columbus have always thought of themselves as indigenous, and as being part of the community of “First Nations” whose land was illegally colonized and seized by outsiders.

Few “First Nations” communities are closer to us than the Maori of New Zealand. Although a treaty was signed between Maori chiefs and English settlers in 1841, the Treaty of Waitangi is a controversial document, in part because the translation of it in the Maori language is disputed.

WIKIPEDIA PUTS IT THIS WAY

Article one of the Māori text grants governance rights to the Crown while the English text cedes "all rights and powers of sovereignty" to the Crown.

Article two of the Māori text establishes that Māori will retain full chieftainship over their lands, villages and all their treasures while the English text establishes the continued ownership of the Māori over their lands and establishes the exclusive right of pre-emption of the Crown.

Article three gives Māori people full rights and protections as British subjects.

The Māori text and the English text differ in meaning significantly, particularly in relation to the meaning of having and ceding sovereignty. These discrepancies led to disagreements in the decades following the signing, eventually contributing to the New Zealand Wars of 1845 to 1872.

His Excellency
Chief Charles Hohepa

Today, there is a growing controversy between the Maori tribes and what they refer to as the “servant settler” government of New Zealand. One of the most articulate spokesmen of the Maori tribes is Chief Charles Hohepa of New Zealand who founded the International Maori Cultural Centre in Brussels in 2018.

In October, GODSPEED Magazine Editor-in-Chief David Aikman spoke by phone with Chief Charles to feel out his views on different issues.

Below are Chief Charles’ thoughts

“In 2007, the United Nations recognized the right of indigenous peoples to set up their own banks. But I don’t need permission from anyone. New Zealand declared independence in 1835 and it was recognized by a 21-gun salute by a British Navy ship. America was here and China. There are no banks registered in New Zealand because they are all Australian, including the Reserve Bank of New Zealand which is the central bank. This is because they don’t have sovereignty, that has always been with the Maori.

The Declaration of Independence of 1835 predates the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 which (further) recognizes that the resources in the land, the sea, and the forest (of New Zealand) all belong to Maori.

The New Zealand government is trying to bring in quarantine and things, and we are opposing it. We can see the government is trying to inoculate all our people and it’s just wrong. Even the Treaty of Waitangi recognized our sovereignty.

LAUNCHING A
CENTRAL BANK

We are launching our own central bank of Aotearoa (the Maori name of New Zealand) and we want to be a model for indigenous nations all over the world. Now originally, we had a bank that was opened in 1769. Our people were trading with China and America. When you look at the technology of The Americas Cup, and how they get up on pontoons, all that technology came from Maori. They had 200 big canoes at that time. These are boats that can take up to 130 men, rowers. When Captain Cook was coming to New Zealand (in 1769 Cook reported), these boats were flying past them.
When they opened the bank, it was called the Te Reo Maori Endowment Trust Bank.

The center of activity was in Auckland and they were carrying logs and fruits and vegetables and everything to make rope.

Auckland (Māori: Tāmaki Makaurau) is the most populous urban area in the country
with a population of about 1,470,100.

There were 200 of these big canoes going into Auckland every day and they were doing tallies every three months and the average they were banking was 100,000 pounds which is equivalent to a $400 million a year in business while operating at that time. It was accumulating and accumulating and accumulating and then in 1950, the government froze the bank. This bank, up until last year, was funding 63 percent of the British Empire. Sixty-three percent was funded from that bank and right now they have six master accounts. It’s in the U.N. and the World Bank.

A master account has
a minimum of $50 trillion
in each account.
We’re setting up our central bank so we can pull back the money.

Five years ago (2016),
I lodged a big complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S. and to the State Department and I cited 35 breaches of the treaty from land confiscation.

They stole (parcels like) four and a half million acres at a time. They just stole it by committing fraud upon our people. I logged it (the complaint) at twelve o’clock at midday on a Friday at the State Department and it went worldwide. Two hours later the then Prime Minister of New Zealand arrived in the U.S. for a six-day visit. He was made privy to our document that had just been filed. He canceled the trip. He immediately hopped on a plane and flew home. He arrived in New Zealand on Sunday morning and Monday he resigned.

We don’t need anybody else. We have sovereignty in New Zealand.

We did something very unique three years ago and we set up the International Maori Cultural Centre in Brussels. Before that, the government controlled all the narratives in the U.N. and worldwide. They controlled the narrative of Maori. Since we opened the Maori Cultural Center, we’ve been made privy to a lot of information that this government had been committing fraud on our people. This is being investigated by the IMF and the World Bank and the U.N. who have set up a new department to assist with what is happening to the indigenous peoples.
Maori sovereignty (based on bloodline) is by birth.

We have an agreement with other First Nations to develop the indigenous bank that we started here in New Zealand. We have been talking to (more than 300 tribes that represent the First Nations people of) Mexico. They’re going to sign our treaty very soon. Ecuador, Peru, right down to the Amazon. And we’re also talking to the Apache nation in America, the Anishinaabe nation in Canada, the Cree Nation, and the Blackfoot Sioux nation. Some of them have already signed our treaty and a lot of them are now coming into the treaty relationship. It’s a cooperation and a peace treaty to set up our forums and things. We understand the issues.

Chief Charles Became a Follower of Jesus at Age 8

I became a follower of Jesus at the age of eight. I was walking through this grass with the wind on my back and the sun on my face and I had a real sense of God around me. The whole paddock lit up. I was in a paddock full of bright yellow buttercups glistening in the sun. I had a sense; it was like the Shekinah glory of God surrounded me. I got down on my knees and I was crying. I was eight.

When I was 13, I actually made a stand for Jesus Christ on the 27th of October at eleven o’clock in 1967 and He came into my life and He changed me. He turned me over. I was crying to think that The King of all of Heaven would consider me… a nobody. He knew the me that nobody else knew and that was the me that The King of all of Heaven came and met with that day.

He knew the me
that nobody else knew
and that was the me
that The King
of all of Heaven
came and met with
that day.

Please Pray for
First Nations People

The most incredible thing people can do is pray for First Nations people. We have been so downtrodden, and things have been stolen from us and pillaged.

I believe we are going to be a part of a huge move across the world and bring God back to our people and teach people to sing again. We are here in New Zealand and we are the first people in the world to see the sun every new year.

The indigenous people have never lost their love for the environment. You will see, goodwill is going to come from First Nations people.
I believe we’re gonna see God’s favor blow across our lands.”

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