diff --git a/docs/django.rst b/docs/django.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+=============================
+Using MongoEngine with Django
+=============================
+
+Connecting
+==========
+In your **settings.py** file, ignore the standard database settings (unless you
+also plan to use the ORM in your project), and instead call 
+:func:`~mongoengine.connect` somewhere in the settings module.
+
+Authentication
+==============
+MongoEngine includes a Django authentication backend, which uses MongoDB. The
+:class:`~mongoengine.django.auth.User` model is a MongoEngine 
+:class:`~mongoengine.Document`, but implements most of the methods and 
+attributes that the standard Django :class:`User` model does - so the two are
+moderately compatible. Using this backend will allow you to store users in 
+MongoDB but still use many of the Django authentication infrastucture (such as
+the :func:`login_required` decorator and the :func:`authenticate` function). To
+enable the MongoEngine auth backend, add the following to you **settings.py**
+file::
+    
+    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
+        'mongoengine.django.auth.MongoEngineBackend',
+    )
+
+The :mod:`~mongoengine.django.auth` module also contains a 
+:func:`~mongoengine.django.auth.get_user` helper function, that takes a user's
+:attr:`id` and returns a :class:`~mongoengine.django.auth.User` object.
diff --git a/docs/userguide.rst b/docs/userguide.rst
index c1dd13ae..602d51b6 100644
--- a/docs/userguide.rst
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@@ -168,6 +168,22 @@ The following example shows a :class:`Log` document that will be limited to
         ip_address = StringField()
         meta = {'max_documents': 1000, 'max_size': 2000000}
 
+Indexes
+-------
+You can specify indexes on collections to make querying faster. This is done
+by creating a list of index specifications called :attr:`indexes` in the
+:attr:`~Document.meta` dictionary, where an index specification may either be
+a single field name, or a tuple containing multiple field names. A direction
+may be specified on fields by prefixing the field name with a **+** or a **-**
+sign. Note that direction only matters on multi-field indexes. ::
+
+    class Page(Document):
+        title = StringField()
+        rating = StringField()
+        meta = {
+            'indexes': ['title', ('title', '-rating')]
+        }
+
 Document inheritance
 --------------------
 To create a specialised type of a :class:`~mongoengine.Document` you have
diff --git a/mongoengine/document.py b/mongoengine/document.py
index d7154404..1afa1e41 100644
--- a/mongoengine/document.py
+++ b/mongoengine/document.py
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ class Document(BaseDocument):
     maximum size of the collection in bytes. If :attr:`max_size` is not 
     specified and :attr:`max_documents` is, :attr:`max_size` defaults to 
     10000000 bytes (10MB).
+
+    Indexes may be created by specifying :attr:`indexes` in the :attr:`meta`
+    dictionary. The value should be a list of field names or tuples of field 
+    names. Index direction may be specified by prefixing the field names with
+    a **+** or **-** sign.
     """
 
     __metaclass__ = TopLevelDocumentMetaclass