The Gunai (/ˈɡʌnaɪ/ GUN-eye), also spelt Gunnai, or Kurnai (/ˈkɜːrnaɪ/ KUR-nye), often now referred to as the Gunai/Kurnai (/ˈɡʌnaɪkɜːrnaɪ/ GUN-eye-kur-nye), people are an Aboriginal Australian nation of south-east Australia, whose territory occupies most of present-day Gippsland and much of the southern slopes of the Victorian Alps. The Gunai/Kurnai nation is composed of five major clans. Many of the Gunai/Kurnai people resisted early European squatting and subsequent settlement during the nineteenth century, resulting in a number of deadly confrontations between Europeans and the Gunai/Kurnai. There are about 3,000 Gunai/Kurnai people alive today, predominantly living in Gippsland.