History of the Cyclades by the Ottoman Empire, which allowed the islands a certain administrative and fiscal autonomy. Economic prosperity continued despite the pirates. The archipelago had an ambiguous attitude towards the war of independence. Having become Greek in the 1830s, the Cyclades have shared the history of Greece since that time. At first they went through a period of commercial prosperity, still due to their geographic position, before the trade routes and modes of transport changed. After suffering a rural exodus, renewal began with the influx of tourists. However, tourism is not the Cyclades' only resource today. The most ancient traces of activity
Wiikwemkoong First Nation Wiikwemkoong First Nation The Wiikwemkoong First Nation is a First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario. The Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve (nick named Wiiki, previously named Wikwemikong) is the First Nation reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wiikwemkoong 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