Arweet

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.^[1][2] 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^[3][4]
• Ningerranarro (died 1847) also known as Old Benbow of the Boonwurrung^[1]
• Noonallaboon (1842–1844), Burrumbeet balug of the Wathaurong^[2]
• Balybalip also called Bullurp Bullurp, Bil-le-bil-lup, and King Billy of Ballarat (c.1823-1881), Burrumbeet balug
• Carolyn Briggs

References

1. Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung Arweets Carolyn Briggs^{[permanent dead link‍]}, Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Retrieved 9 November 2008
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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.