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.Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung Arweets Carolyn Briggs, Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Retrieved 9 November 2008Tardis Enterprises Pty Ltd, cultural heritage advisors, Stockyard Hill Wind Farm – Desktop Cultural Heritage Assessment , Retrieved 9 November 2008 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 Ningerranarro (died 1847) also known as Old Benbow of the Boonwurrung Noonallaboon (1842–1844), Burrumbeet balug of the Wathaurong Balybalip also called Bullurp Bullurp, Bil-le-bil-lup, and King Billy of Ballarat (c.1823-1881), Burrumbeet balug Carolyn Briggs
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