A generic term for an Aboriginal leader.
they imposed hierarchy on Aborigines by appointing King Billies and requiring them to wear identifying trinkets
Example sentencesExamples
- Ballarat council looks set to name its newest suburb after one of the city's most famous historical elders, Mullawallah, or King Billy as he was commonly known.
- He was one of at least three Wathaurung men in the region given the title King Billy by European settlers.
- This particular measure does not seem to have had any marked effect except perhaps in helping to set up a number of tribal King Billies to confuse writers on native ways.
- The paper was handed to him by the aboriginal King Billy and contained only these words,'Goodbye, sir.'
- At one time when a stranger approached a blacks' camp the juvenile King Billies would disappear into the gunyans.