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Derrimut (or Derremart or Terrimoot) (1810c - 28 May 1864), was a headman or arweet of the Boonwurrung people from the Melbourne area of Australia.〔Ian D. Clark, ''("You have all this place, no good have children ..." Derrimut: traitor, saviour, or a man of his people? )'', in the ''Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society'', 1 December 2005. Accessed 8 November 2008〕 He informed the early European settlers in October 1835 of an impending attack by "up-country tribes". The colonists armed themselves, and the attack was averted. Benbow from the Bunurong and Billibellary, from the Wurundjeri, also acted to protect the colonists in what is perceived as part of their duty of hospitality.〔 He fought in the late 1850s and early 1860s to protect Boonwurrung rights to live on their land at Mordialloc Reserve. When the reserve was closed in July 1863, his people were forced to unite with the remnants of Woiwurrung and other Victorian Aboriginal communities to settle Coranderrk Mission station, near Healsville.〔 Derrimut became very disillusioned and died in a Benevolent Asylum at the age of about 54 years in 1864. In his honour, over his body, interred in the Melbourne General Cemetery according to European rather than Aboriginal rites, a tombstone was erected.〔 The Melbourne suburb of Derrimut is named after him. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derrimut (Indigenous Australian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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