As the second-largest independent research library in the United States, the Newberry Library in Chicago is known as one of America's great repositories of knowledge. This site invites readers to explore the Indians of the Midwest, both past and present. Readers may scout the site's eight informative sections: People, Places, & Time; the Homeland & Its Use; The Marketplace; Treaties; Identities; Property; Indian Imagery; and Are Midwest Indians Typical? Within each section readers may further delve into the history, politics, and other issues related to the Midwest's Native peoples through drawings, video interviews, and quotes from newspaper articles, treaties, supreme court rulings, and other documents.