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