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:

References

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


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