While the landmark case is officially known as “U.S. v State of Washington,” anyone interested in fishing and human rights in the Northwest calls it the Boldt Decision.

U.S. District Judge George Boldt’s 1974 ruling redirected the lives of people such as Ron Charles, a S’Klallam tribal leader who tells his story in “My Heart Is Good: Treaty Rights and the Rise of a S’Klallam Fishing Community,” a new book from Empty Bowl Press of Chimacum.

Charles, along with co-author and anthropologist Josh Wisniewski, will discuss the book and answer questions in three public events in the coming week:

• At ʔaʔkwustəŋáw̕txw House of Learning, the Peninsula College Longhouse in Port Angeles, at 12:35 p.m. Thursday in a presentation that also will be available on Zoom via the Studium Generale link at p

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