Tag: basques in the americas
From Kansas City: the importance of the Basque presence in Nevada...
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Journalist Heidi Knapp Rinella at the Las Vegas Review-Journal has just published an article about the Basque presence...
A “Bilbaino” is the director of the last commercial in the...
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Our protagonist today is Iván Mena Tinoco, and according to his file on the Gijón Film Festival website,...
A Basque from Bergara has just been made a member of...
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On Thursday, January 25, a celebration was held at the Paraninfo at the Caracas Palace of the Academies...
A Basque lullaby heard at the Chicago Planetarium
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Amaia Gabantxo never ceases to pleasantly surprise us. At this rate, we’re going to have to make up...
CNN visits the “inclusive Basque community of Boise” (video)
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Lilit Marcus, Channon Hodge, and Diana Diroy have prepared an article and video for CNN about the weight...
1954 Basque Festival in Mar del Plata (film courtesy of the...
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To celebrate the new year, the Argentine National General Archive has shared, on Facebook and Twitter, a small...
Martín de Murua, the Basque who wrote about the Incas of...
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Jorge Paredes Laos has just published an interesting article in the Peruvian daily El Comercio about the life...
The stories of the Basques engraved in the poplars of the...
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We’ve spoken before about the arboglyphs on our blog: an extraordinary, and perishable, heritage the Basques who went...
Louis’ Basque Corner, the Basque restaurant in Reno, Nevada, turns 50
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USA Today’s 10Best website compiles for its readers “things to see and do, and restaurants for top destinations...
Basques are “invisible” even to themselves. In memoriam: Daniel “the Indian”...
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In our daily search for news from around the world that mentions the Basques, we found an article...


































![Martín de Murua, the Basque who wrote about the Incas of Peru in a 16th century illustrated story Tomado de la obra Códice Murúa: Historia y genealogía de los reyes incas del Perú del padre mercedario fray Martín de Murúa: códice Galvin (2004 [1590]). En el brazo del personaje se puede leer: "Vila Oma" y en la pierna del mismo: "El gran pontífice del Inga"; ambas inscripciones dan cuenta de la alta jerarquía del individuo, la cual se ve a su vez reforzada mediante el uso de la diadema en forma de media luna, el brazalete o chipana, bastón de mando y el adorno de barbilla.](https://aboutbasquecountry.eus/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/historia-general-del-piru-martin-de-murua-324x235.jpg)


