- Arweet
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Arweet is an important tribal position in the Boon wurrung and Wathaurong tribal 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 held 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 Bunurong people [3]
- Ningerranarro ( Died 1847) also known as Benbow of the Boon wurrung[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 of the Wathaurong[2]
- Worope of the Burrumbeet balug of the Wathaurong[2]
References
- ^ a b Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung Arweets Carolyn Briggs, Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Accessed November 9, 2008
- ^ a b c d Tardis Enterprises Pty Ltd, cultural heritage advisors, Stockyard Hill Wind Farm – Desktop Cultural Heritage Assessment, Accessed November 9, 2008
- ^ Ian D. Clark, "You have all this place, no good have children ..." Derrimut: traitor, saviour, or a man of his people?, in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, December 1, 2005. Accessed November 8, 2008
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- Indigenous Australian culture
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