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]
• 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 of the Wathaurong[2]

References

1. Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung Arweets Carolyn Briggs, Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Accessed 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, Accessed 9 November 2008
3. 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, 1 December 2005. Accessed 8 November 2008