Wikwemikong First Nation

The Wikwemikong First Nation is a First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario. The Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve (also called Wikwemikong, Wiikwemkoong, or simply Wiky) is their First Nation reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wikwemikong is an unceded Indian reserve in Canada, which means that it has not "relinquished title to its land to the government by treaty or otherwise. "The local Ojibwe placename is wiikwemkong (Manitoulin dialect; notice the vowel dropping) with the locative -ong (‘at’) form of wiikwemik ‘bay with a gently sloping bottom’. The spelling Wikwemikong is from dialects spoken elsewhere (or in earlier times) that retain the i. The initial element wiikwe- occurs in other forms as ‘bay’; the final element -mik cannot be for amik ‘beaver’ (local form there mik), a folk-etymology that violates the rules for Algonquian stem formation. It can be identified as a variant of the medial element aamik- that appears, for example, in Southwestern Ojibwe minaamikaa ‘there are breakers, shoals, banks (of sand or rocks)’, which has initial min- ‘islandlike’. The plus or minus of aa- is found in several medial elements in Ojibwe and other Algonquian languages. The reserve's former name was Manitoulin Unceded Indian Reserve; the Wikwemikong Band changed it on August 20, 1968, to Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve.

The Wikwemikong First Nation is a First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario. The Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve (also called Wikwemikong, Wiikwemkoong, or simply Wiky) is their First Nation reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wikwemikong is an unceded Indian reserve in Canada, which means that it has not "relinquished title to its land to the government by treaty or otherwise. "The local Ojibwe placename is wiikwemkong (Manitoulin dialect; notice the vowel dropping) with the locative -ong (‘at’) form of wiikwemik ‘bay with a gently sloping bottom’. The spelling Wikwemikong is from dialects spoken elsewhere (or in earlier times) that retain the i. The initial element wiikwe- occurs in other forms as ‘bay’; the final element -mik cannot be for amik ‘beaver’ (local form there mik), a folk-etymology that violates the rules for Algonquian stem formation. It can be identified as a variant of the medial element aamik- that appears, for example, in Southwestern Ojibwe minaamikaa ‘there are breakers, shoals, banks (of sand or rocks)’, which has initial min- ‘islandlike’. The plus or minus of aa- is found in several medial elements in Ojibwe and other Algonquian languages. The reserve's former name was Manitoulin Unceded Indian Reserve; the Wikwemikong Band changed it on August 20, 1968, to Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve.