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Etxe Nami: A meeting point of Basque and Japanese cultures

Etxe Nami Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Photo Melanie Bordas Aubie
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Eviana Hartman on the Vogue magazine website has written about a place in Saint-Jean-de-Luz that brings together Basque...

From Cambridge: “When I’m in the Basque Country, I’m at home”

Traditional dancing at a Basque festival WIKIPEDIA
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Sofia Weiss, born in Chile to a Swiss-British father and a mother whose last name was Goitiandia, but...

The stories of the Basques engraved in the poplars of the...

This Idaho carving from 1975 lists the name, Jose Maria Eizaguirre, and the hometown, Amoroto, of the carver. Amoroto is located in the Bizkaia province in Basque Country, where about 90 percent of Idaho Basques emigrated from, says John Bieter. BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’ve spoken before about the arboglyphs on our blog: an extraordinary, and perishable, heritage the Basques who went...

Hilarión Sarrionandia: the Basque who wrote the first grammar of the...

Pedro Hilarión Sarrionandia Linaza
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The land of Rif, where the Riffians live, in modern-day Morocco, is a land of sad memories for...

‘Forbes’ recommends visiting Bilbao, just after it was named the 2018...

Azkuna Zentroa Bilbao Revista Forbes
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Forbes is a magazine that’s dedicated several positive and interesting looks at us Basques, and we’ve written about...

Igor Yebra is offered the post of director of the National...

El bailarín vasco Igor Yebra (fotografía: Isabel Munoz)
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp Several Uruguayan media outlets have just reported that the Minister of Culture of Uruguay, María Julia Muñoz, has...

An homage and recognition of the Basque contribution to the “cowboy...

Bertsolariak at the National Basque Festival in Elko. Photo by Meg Glaser.
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Upgrade:  List of participants. BASQUE, BASQUE-AMERICAN and OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS At the end of January 2018, the 34th Annual...

More info about the Basque stitch and the Basque knot.  Did...

  This article was translated by John R. Bopp About five years ago, we wrote a blog entry about the Basque stitch and the Basque knot.  We’d...

BBC: a spectacular article about Basque, “the oldest language in Europe”

articulo de la BBC sobre el euskera
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Today, at 7am, while our readers were getting their daily email with the blog updates, the BBC published...

Tonight, a “Basque” girl could be Miss Canada World 2017!

Just over a year ago, we told you about the passing of Elsie Basque, a woman who belonged to the Mi’kmaq nation, one of...