Congratulations to AHA Executive Committee member Matt Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath on the publication of An Indigenous South: German writers on colonial South Australia (Wakefield Press). As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony in South Australia, Germans observed the processes of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than that, they participated in those profound and tragic changes. German settlers and visitors left behind records of the events they witnessed. This volume collects those precious records and makes them available – most for the first time in English – to a modern Australian readership. As it documents the astounding cultural wealth and complexity of Indigenous peoples under siege, it also lays bare the grim logic of the forces driving their world towards destruction. Congratulations to Matt and Peter on the publication of this important source collection.