What is "arweet"

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. 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
• Ningerranarro ( Died 1847) also known as Benbow of the Boon wurrung
• 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 of the Wathaurong