Calyute (fl. 1833–1840), also known as Kalyute, Galyute or Wongir, was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who was involved in a number of reprisal attacks with white settlers and members of other tribes in the early days of the Swan River Colony, in Western Australia. He was a member of the Pindjarup people from around the Murray River area south of Perth. Calyute's family included two brothers, Woodan and Yanmar, two wives, Mindup and Yamup, and two sons, Ninia and Monang.
Calyute (fl. 1833–1840), also known as Kalyute, Galyute or Wongir, was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who was involved in a number of reprisal...
Pindjarup leader Calyute distinguished himself by keeping his spear pressed to a soldier who had, in turn, held his musket at Calyute's chest. The Whadjuk...
attacking party, some of the younger generation of Binjareb (notably Calyute's son Monang and another individual called Denmar) nonetheless appear to...
of a European being executed for the killing of an Aboriginal person. Calyute – leader of the Pindjarup people at the time of the Battle of Pinjarra...
21st Regiment of Foot, and the group, including local Aboriginal leader Calyute, set off. During the ride Barron and Nesbitt were ambushed, with three...
She traces her family back many generations, and is directly related to Calyute, one of the few survivors of the Pinjarra massacre. Her grandfather is...
April 1834 Calyute leads a raid by thirty Binjareb on Shenton's Mill in South Perth. Shenton was locked inside and the flour was taken. Calyute, Gunmal and...
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