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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:
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Derrimut (1810c - 1864), arweet of the Yalukit-willam clan of the
Boonwurrung people
[3]
[4]
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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
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Carolyn Briggs
References
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a
b Carolyn Briggs,
Boon wurrung Arweets Carolyn Briggs[
permanent dead link], Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Retrieved 9 November 2008
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a
b 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
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^ 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.
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^ 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.