Arweet/Ngarweet is an important tribal position in the Boonwurrung and Wathaurong peoples of the Indigenous Australian Kulin alliance who live from Western Port, Port Phillip, Geelong to Ballarat. An Arweet is a leader or headman and holds a similar tribal standing as a ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri people.
Notable Arweet include:
- Derrimut (1810c - 1864), arweet of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boonwurrung people
- Ningerranarro (died 1847) also known as Old Benbow of the Boonwurrung
- Noonallaboon (1842–1844), Burrumbeet balug of the Wathaurong
- Balybalip also called Bullurp Bullurp, Bil-le-bil-lup, and King Billy of Ballarat (c.1823-1881), Burrumbeet balug
- Carolyn Briggs
References
- ^ Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung Arweets Carolyn Briggs, Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Retrieved 9 November 2008
- ^ Tardis Enterprises Pty Ltd, cultural heritage advisors, Stockyard Hill Wind Farm – Desktop Cultural Heritage Assessment Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 9 November 2008
- Clark, Ian D. (1 December 2005). "'You have all this place, no good have children ...' Derrimut: traitor, saviour, or a man of his people?". Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
- Lydon, Jane. "Photography, authenticity and Victoriaʹs Aborigines Protection Act (1886)". In Boucher, Leigh; Russell, Lynette (eds.). Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria. ANU Press.
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