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Jarijari were an indigenous Australian people whose traditional territory was located in the Mallee region of Victoria.

Jarijari was the tribe's word for "no", it being customary for the Murray tribes of this area to be identified by the negative used in their respective languages.

Jarijari language is classified as belonging to the Lower Murray Areal Group, together with Kureinji, and very similar to that spoken by the Watiwati.

Jarijari tribal lands covered around 1,900 sq. miles on the western bank of the Murray River, from above Chalka Creek to Annuello in the Mallee. Their southern frontier ran sound along Hopetoun Lake Korong and Pine Plains. The northern frontier bordered on Redcliffs.

Neighbouring tribes were the Wergaia to the south, the Latjilatji to the west and the Dadi Dadi to the east.

The classification of species by Blandowski was flawed, in that he made several species out of distinct life phases in just a few. At least 3 were reclassified and renamed under a different taxonomy: flathead gudgeon, the Jarijari collundera: Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) and Murray hardyhead (Craterocephalus fluviatilis)

The Blandowski Expedition (1856-1857) was one of the first documented European encounters with the people. Blandowski described the Yarree as his "good friends". Notably one of William Blandowski's 1857 illustrations depicted traditional Jari Jari recreation. Peter Beveridge, in his 1883 account "The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina" recorded some of the tribe's dreamtime beliefs, associated with these Murray tribes of which the Jarijari were one.

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