Tag: Basques in the Americas
The Mariners who Served in the US Merchant Marines to Be...
Thanks to Pedro J. Oiarzabal and the Sancho de Beurko Association for the news!
The US is going to give the Congressional Gold Medal (one...
Fifteen Years of the Center for Basque Studies of Antioquia
This December, the Basques in Antioquia are celebrating a very important event: the 15th anniversary of the Center for Basque Studies, which has been...
Basques united to create a community kitchen/school/restaurant in one of the...
Today we'd like to bring you the news of the community kitchen / school / restaurant that was opened in 2019 by Basque-Peruvian Gastón...
Rafael Anchia, a Democrat of Basque origin in the Texas legislature
Rafael Anchia, a Democrat of Basque origin in the Texas legislatureRafael «Rafa» Anchia is the son of a Basque pelota player from Markina and...
From Argentina—Basque: a language that is part of local history
Many places around the world, wherever there are Basques or friends of Basques, celebrated the International Day of the Basque Language, the Euskararen Nazioarteko Eguna,...
120 years of the birth of Martín Elorza, a key figure...
A few months ago, we brought you a blog entry on the epic work of the Basque Passionists in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, heroic...
The Surprising Basque Festival in North American France
Our English-language edition editor here at About Basque Country spent a few days this past summer in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. He’s written a bit of a...
The New England Basque Club is taking the Basque language to...
We've blogged about the New England Basque Club on other occasions. It's a group of Basques and friends of Basques that is active and imaginative. ...
Selma Huxley, the woman who showed epic journey of Basque whalers...
We've written a lot about how Basque whalers "lighted" Europe with the oil from the whales they captured off of modern-day Canada. They were...
National Geographic explores the “Basque soul” of Idaho
National Geographic has dedicated many articles to the Basques over its more than a century of publishing. We've collected a few of them on...