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Arweet
Arweet/Ngarweet is an important tribal position in the Boonwurrung and Wathaurong peoples of the Indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples o ... 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 (Indigenous Australian), Derrimut (1810c - 1864), arweet of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boonwurrun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Briggs
Arweet, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs is a Yalukit, Yaluk-ut Weelam and Boon wurrung, Boon Wurrung elder, and the Boon Wurrung representative in the City of Port Phillip. She is the founder and chair of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. She was awarded the NAIDOC Awards#2011 winners, National Aboriginal Elder of the Year in 2011 by the National NAIDOC Week, NAIDOC Committee. She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2005. She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) as part of the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Biography Briggs is the great-granddaughter of Louisa Briggs, who as a child was abducted by seal hunters before later returning to the Kulin nation with her husband, John Briggs, who also survived abduction. Briggs was born in Melbourne. She first attended Monash University in the 1970s, and completed her Doctorate in Philosophy (Media and Communications) at RMIT University in 2020. In the 1970s, she opened the first Aboriginal child care serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |