Selkup

The Selkup were a people of the Ob basin in western Siberia. Their later Piebald Horde brought together Selkup and Ket tribes east of the Siberian Khanate.

In the sixteenth century the confederation occupied the Narym and Tom basins. Princes Vonya and Kichey resisted Moscow and sought an alliance with Khan Kuchum. Russia subdued them after building a fort at Narym in the 1590s; in 1610 Vonya's son Taybokhta entered the tsar's service while retaining the upper Narym principality.