Derrimut

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Portrait drawing of Derrimut (Benjamin Duterau)

Derrimut , also called Derremart or Terrimoot , (* around 1810 in Victoria , Australia ; † May 28, 1864 ibid) was an Arweet of the Aborigines of the Boonwurrung clan , who lived in the Melbourne area .

Derrimut warned early European settlers in October 1835 against an attack by the Aborigines of the up-country tribes . The colonists armed themselves and the attack could be repulsed. Benbow of the Bunurong Aborigines and Billibellary of the Wurundjeri protected the colonists as part of their duties resulting from their hospitality , traditionally agreed in a ritual called tanderrum .

Derritmut fought for the Boonwurrung's rights to live on their land in the Mordialloc Reserve in the late 1850s and early 1860s . This reservation was closed in July 1863 and the members of its tribe were forced to live with the Voivurrung and other Aborigines in the Coranderrk , an Aboriginal missionary station near Healsville . This disaffected Derrimut and he died in Benevolent Asylum in 1864 at the age of 54.

In his honor, a tombstone was erected by Europeans in Melbourne General Cemetery , observing the funeral rites of the Aborigines.

The Derrimut district of Melbourne is named after him.

literature

  • Lack, John. 1991, 'Traditional Koori Society / The Destruction of Koori Society' in A History of Footscray, Hargreen Publishing Company, North Melbourne, Victoria
  • Presland, Gary. 1994, The Land of the Kulin: Discovering the lost landscape and the first people of Port Phillip, McPhee Gribble, Penguin Books, Australia.
  • Presland, Gary. 1997, The First Residents of Melbourne's Western Region, Revised Edition, Harriland Press, Forest Hill, Victoria.
  • Priestley, Susan. 1988, Clans of the Kulin in Altona A Long View, Hargreen Publishing Company, North Melbourne, Victoria.
  • Walsh, Larry. 1996, STILL HERE: A brief history of Aborigines in Melbourne's western region up to the present day, Melbourne's Living Museum of the

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ian D. Clark, "You have all this place, no good have children ..." Derrimut: traitor, savior, or a man of his people? , in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , December 1, 2005, in English, November 8, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Derrimut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Derremart; Terrimoot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Aboriginal leader
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria , Australia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1864
Place of death Victoria , Australia