Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve
| Wikwemikong | |
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| Unceded territory | |
| Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve | |
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| Nickname(s): Wiky | |
 Wikwemikong
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| Coordinates: 45°42′N 81°43′W / 45.700°N 81.717°WCoordinates: 45°42′N 81°43′W / 45.700°N 81.717°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| District | Manitoulin |
| First Nation | Wikwemikong |
| Government | |
| • Type | First Nation |
| • Chief | Duke Peltier |
| • MP | Carol Hughes (NDP) |
| • MPP | Michael Mantha (NDP) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 412.97 km2 (159.45 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,592 |
| • Density | 6.3/km2 (16/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal code span | P0P 2J0 |
| Area code(s) | 705 |
| Website | www.wikwemikong.ca |
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 reserve is occupied by Ojibwa, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples, under the Council of Three Fires. The current band chief is Duke Peltier.
Wikwemikong occupies a large peninsula on the eastern end of Manitoulin Island, which is connected to the rest of the island by an isthmus separating South Bay from Manitowaning Bay. The reserve's primary access is via Wikwemikong Way, which continues off the reserve as Cardwell Street and connects to Highway 6 at Manitowaning. The reserve has a land area of 412.97 km² and is the fifth-largest Indian reserve in Canada by area. It is bordered on its west by Assiginack township, by which the peninsula is connected to the rest of Manitoulin Island. The vast majority of the reserve's border is, however, a water boundary with Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands, by which it is nearly surrounded except for its border with Assiginack.
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