The settlement served as a center for the collection of tribute from the indigenous Selkup. It is the general term that includes the Nenets, Enets, Selkup, and Nganasan peoples. There were distinguished several types of shamans among Nenets, Enets, and Selkup people. Krasnoselkup was founded in 1933 on the site of the Selkup camp Nyaryi Mache. Bread of Selkup is mentioned from the 8th-9th centuries. These roles vary among the Nenets, Enets, and Selkup shamans. Some descendant cultures, such as the Selkup, remain in the Sayan region. A limited form of consonant gradation is found in the Ket dialect of Selkup. Mator has been frequently grouped together with Selkup and Kamassian as "South Samoyedic". Translated from Selkup, this means "swampy, tundra forest". About 4,000 people identified as Selkup during the 2002 Russian census. The Selkup people were known as Ostyak-Samoyeds until the 1930s. Selkup has a syllable structure (C)V(C). Selkup is fractured in an extensive dialect continuum whose ends are no longer mutually intelligible. It has remained distinct only in Selkup, merging elsewhere with *"t".