Gayiri/Kairi
Appearing on the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia as the Gayiri and listed in Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia as the Kairi (alternatively, Kararya, Khararya, Bimurraburra — the horde in the vicinity of Emerald — Gahrarja, Gara Gara, Ara Ara, and Kara Kara), this group occupied around 17,900 square kilometres along the Great Dividing Range from south of Springsure to Capella, extending west to the Drummond Range and east to Comet and the Mackenzie and Nogoa Rivers.
Their numbers were drastically reduced in the wake of the Cullin-la-ringo massacre in October 1861, where the killing of a Gayiri man accused of stealing cattle resulted in the death of nineteen settlers and reprisals that saw Native Mounted Police patrols and bands of settler vigilantes kill around 370 Gayiri people.
