TORONTO, Ont.-Shekoh Neechie: An Indigenous History Site went live in June, coinciding with National Indigenous Peoples Day.

University of Saskatchewan professors Robert Alexander Innes and Winona Wheeler, from the College of Arts and Science's Department of Indigenous Studies, serve on the site's managing board with Indigenous scholars from York University and the universities of Guelph, Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg.

Innes said the idea for the website was born while he was thinking about spaces for Indigenous historians to come together and share their ideas, works in progress and thought...