EMPTY BOWL
Empty Bowl, an independent press founded in 1976 in the Pacific Northwest as a cooperative letterpress publisher, publishes literary anthologies, poetry, translations, essays, and occasionally fiction.
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My Heart Is Good
Ron Charles & Josh Wisniewski
Praise for My Heart Is Good:
“My Heart Is Good: Treaty Rights and the Rise of a S’Klallam Fishing Community is important for the way it documents the implementation of the Boldt legal ruling that upheld the treaty rights of tribes in the Pacific Northwest to fish, hunt, and gather on traditional lands and waters. Port Gamble S’Klallam elder and tribal administrator Ron Charles did hard work to implement treaty rights, negotiate with neighboring tribes, and find equitable resolution of Indigenous fishing areas. His story is a valuable personal window into the long and often contentious settlement involving multiple tribes and the state and federal governments. This is the legacy of the famous Boldt Decision. Written with anthropologist Josh Wisniewski, My Heart Is Good is a model of good collaborative research.”
—Dr. William Schneider, professor emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks, author of So They
Of Note
A new book by longtime Empty Bowl publisher Michael Daley, Ground Work, will be released by Ravenna Press in October.
Andrew Schelling, author of Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers, has a new book of translations coming out this November from Circumference Books. Old Time Love Song Magic is a bilingual edition of poems by Vidyā, who may have been the earliest woman to write poetry in Sanskrit.
Recent releases from Empty Bowl
“Understand: Cultural Issues in Oral History Research The 1974 Boldt Decision hit the Pacific Northwest like a tsunami, challenging a social order that had steadily expanded white fisheries while restricting the tribal catch. It was chaos for the tribes as well, as S’Klallam leader Ron Charles recalls in My Heart Is Good, his measured account of the tumultuous period that followed. As the tribes and the state scrambled to interpret and implement the complex order, the transfer of power was contested, not only on the water and in the courts, but in countless meetings where today’s comanagement process was painstakingly constructed. My Heart Is Good offers many insights into this significant period in Pacific Northwest history.”
—Carmel Finley, author of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing
