Kiriri

The Kiriri are an indigenous people of northeastern Bahia and the middle São Francisco River in Brazil. They belong to the wider group of peoples known as the Kariri.

From 1672 to 1683 the Capuchin missionary Martin of Nantes worked among Kariri communities on the São Francisco. Kariri peoples were among the indigenous groups involved in conflicts over Portuguese expansion into Brazil's northeastern interior from the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth century.