Kureinji

Kureinji Traditional lands New South Wales
Murray River on Kureinji lands
Kureinji Traditional lands
Coordinates	34°11′0″S 142°11′0″E / 34.18333°S 142.18333°E / -34.18333; 142.18333Coordinates: 34°11′0″S 142°11′0″E / 34.18333°S 142.18333°E / -34.18333; 142.18333

The Kureinji, otherwise known as the Keramin, are an Aboriginal group whose traditional lands are located in the Northern Riverina of southwest New South Wales, Australia.

Kureionji was one of 35 languages spoken in this area of southwestern New South Wales, around and north of the border with Victoria. Linguistically the tribe was part of the Lower Murray Areal group.

According to Norman Tindale the Kureinji's traditional lands embraced some 1,700 sq. miles of territory, running in good part along the northern banks of the Murray River, ranging from the vicinity of Euston to Wentworth downstream.

Kemendok National Park is part of their traditional land, and traces of their habitation remains in scar trees, fire hearths, flaked stone artefacts, burial sites and middens.

Charles Sturt passed through their country in 1830 but did not mention the Kureinji, Charles Lockhart in 1862 mentioned but not named them. Many of the Kureinji today live in Mildura (Founded 1887).

During colonial times bodies were taken from five burial sites along the New South Wales side of the Murray River, and are now part of the Murray Black Collection The repatriation of these bodies is now sought, by tribal groups.

Across the river from the Kureinji, Mildura which is in Ladji Ladji Tribal land was first settled in 1847. In 1855, the Church of England Society funded the Old Pooncarie Mission eight kilometres west of Pooncarie Township on the Darling River.