Wiikwemkoong First Nation

Wiikwemkong
Wiikwemkong
Unceded territory
	Wiikwemkong Unceded Reserve
	Welcome sign
	Nickname: Wiiki
	Wiikwemkong
	Coordinates: 45°42′N 81°43′W / 45.700°N 81.717°W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
District	Manitoulin
First Nation	Wiikwemkoong
Government
• Type	First Nation
• Chief	Tim Ominika
• MP	Carol Hughes (NDP)
• MPP	Michael Mantha (NDP)
Area
• Land	412.97 km2 (159.45 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	8,431
• Density	6.3/km2 (16/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code span	P0P 2J0
Area code	705
Website	www.wiikwemkoong.ca

The Wiikwemkong First Nation is a First Nation on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario. The Wiikwemkong Unceded Territory (nicknamed Wiky, previously named Wikwemikong) is the First Nation reserve in the northeast of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wiikwemkong is an unceded Indigenous 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'.^[2] 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' (its local form is mik), a folk etymology that violates the rules for Algonquian stem formation. It can be identified as a variant of the medial element aamik-, which appears, for example, in Southwestern Ojibwe minaamikaa 'there are breakers, shoals, banks (of sand or rocks)',^[3] which has initial min- 'islandlike'. The presence or absence of aa- is found in several medial elements in Ojibwe and other Algonquian languages.^[4]

The reserve's former name was Manitoulin Unceded Indian Reserve. The Wiikwemkong Band changed it on August 20, 1968, to Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve.

The reserve is occupied by Ojibwa, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples under the Council of Three Fires.

^ Branch, Government of Canada; Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada; Communications (3 November 2008). "Home". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 30 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Richard A. Rhodes: Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary, 1985, p. 363.
^ Frederic Baraga 1880
^ Ives Goddard, pers. comm. to Carl Masthay, 2016.

[1] Branch, Government of Canada; Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada; Communications (3 November 2008). "Home". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 30 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] Richard A. Rhodes: Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary, 1985, p. 363.

[3] Frederic Baraga 1880

[4] Ives Goddard, pers. comm. to Carl Masthay, 2016.

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