Samoyedic

The Samoyedic group includes the Nenets, Enets, Nganasans and Selkups of northwestern Siberia, called Samoyeds by the Russians. The Nenets, the most numerous, include the Tundra Nenets of the far north and the Forest Nenets, and the Selkups arose in the middle Ob basin.

The Selkups came under Mongol sway in the thirteenth century. Around 1628 the Russians conquered their lands and subjugated them, and an uprising against Russian rule was gunned down. In the seventeenth century some Selkups moved north to the Taz River.