THESE PEOPLE ARE INDIGENOUS WHO OCCUPY THE LANDS IN THE UPPER WIMERA RIVER WATERSHED EAST TO LAKE BRINGALBERT. THEY HAVE SEVERAL TOWNS IN THEIR AREA. THERE WERE 37 JARDIWADIPAL CLANS WHO PERFORMED AN ALLIANCE WITH NEIGHBORING DJABURRING THROUGH INTERMARRIAGE AND THEY SHARED CULTURE AND TRADE AND HAVE A MOIETY SYSTEM. THEY LIVED HERE FOR 30,000 TO 40,0000 YEARS. THEIR LANGUAGE IS COMMON TO THE DJABWEIRING. ONE SITE WAS DATED TO 22,0000 YEARS AGO. IT IS LIKELY THAT THE FIRST CONTACT WITH EUROPEANS WAS THROUGH SMALLPOX EPIDEMICS. THIS EPIDEMIC WAS IN 1788 AND ANOTHER WAS IN 1830'S THIS KILLED MANY FOLKS.
IN 1836 EDWARD HENLY WAS EXPLORING JARDWADJALI LAND FROM THE SOUTH. THIS STARTED EUROPEAN INVASION. TO THE JARDWADJALI AND DIAB WURRONG PEOPLES, GARIWERD WAS CENTRAL TO THE DREAMING OF THE CREATOR.
JARDIWADJALI FOLKS FORMED THE ABORIGINAL CRICKET TEAM IN 1868 THEY PLAYED 47 MATCHES AND WON 17. THERE WERE NO ABORIGINAL MISSIONS ESTABLISHED IN JARDWDIJALI TERRITORY, SO BY 1860'S MANY RELOCATED TO LAKE CONDAH MISSION IN DHAWIR WURRUNG COUNTRY.
THERE WERE ON AND OFF MASSACRES OF THE ABORIGINES, AND VERY FEW WENT TO COURT. MANY SETTLERS KILLED THEM AND THOUGHT NOTHING OF IT.
IN 1989 THERE WAS A PROPOSAL BY VICTORIAN MINISTER OF TOURISM TO RENAME MY PLACES OF ASSOCIATIONS WITH ABORIGINAL HERITAGE. EUROPEANS OPPOSED THIS HOWEVER MANY PLACES RECEIVED ABORINAL NAMES.
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