Derrimut (Indigenous Australian)

Called Derrimut, or Derremart or Terrimoot, (* 1810 in Victoria, Australia, † May 28, 1864 ) was a Arweet Aboriginal communities from the Boonwurrung who lived in the region of Melbourne.

Derrimut warned the early European settlers in October 1835 from an attack of the Aborigines of the up-country tribes. The colonists armed themselves and the attack was repulsed. Benbow by the Aborigines of Bunurong and Billibellary of the Wurundjeri protected the colonists as part of their duties, which resulted from their hospitality are that were traditionally arranged in a ritual, the Tanderrum.

Derritmut fought in the late 1850s and early 1860s for the rights of Boonwurrung to live on their land in the Mordialloc reserve. This reserve was closed in July 1863 and the members of his tribe were forced with the Woiwurrung and other Aboriginal people in the Coranderrk, an Aboriginal mission station at Healsville to live. This disillusioned Derrimut and he died in 1864 in Benevolent Asylum at the age of 54 years.

In his honor, a grave stone of Europeans was built in compliance with the funeral rites of the aborigines at the Melbourne General Cemetery.

The district Derrimut Melbourne is named after him.