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Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #30

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Asko dakin/k//zu, bizitzen baldin badakin/k//zu. If you know how to live, you already know a lot.

Diaspora, Fighting Basques

Traveling Through the Basque-American West: The Future Memorial to Basque World War II Veterans

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Below we publish the chronicle of the latest trip of Dr. Pedro J. Oiarzabal – co-author of this blog and co-principal investigator of “Fighting Basques: Memory of World War II” – to the United States. His trip’s goals were two-fold: to disseminate the nearly-final results of the research, on the tenth anniversary of the projects […]

Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora

Basque Fact of the Week: The Uberuagas of Boise

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One of the best memories I will carry forward from Jaialdi was meeting so much extended family. Boise is full of Uberuagas, but as a kid, I barely knew they all even existed. For reasons I’ll never know, my dad never really interacted with them – perhaps they were too distant of family and he […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #29

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Asko daki zaharrak, erakutsi beharrak. Old people know much, they were taught by necessity.

Basque Fact of the Week, Euskadi, People, Politics

Basque Fact of the Week: Lehendakari Imanol Pradales Gil

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During the Zortziak Bat symposium, the current Lehendakari – or President – of the Basque Country (specifically the Basque Autonomous Community), Imanol Pradales Gil, gave a speech which emphasized not only the shared connections between the Basque Country and the Basque diaspora in the United States, but went further to call on our shared values […]

Euskara, Nire Ustez

Nire Ustez: Euskara and Artificial Intelligence

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In researching my “Basque Facts of the Week,” I rely pretty heavily on Google Translate. While I can get the gist of an article written in Spanish, the details often elude me. And the situation for Euskara is even worse – while I have a rudimentary understanding of the language, I certainly can’t understand a […]

Basque Fact of the Week, Fiestas, Music

Basque Fact of the Week: The Rock Band Gatibu

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One of the best parts of Jaialdi was the music. There were groups wandering the Basque block playing music, more organized acts on the main stage in the middle of the street, and the concert in the arena. Everywhere, people were dancing and singing. One of the bands that played both on the street stage […]

Basque Fact of the Week, Euskadi

Basque Fact of the Week: The Deadly 1985 Airline Crash on Mount Oiz

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Forty years ago, the most horrific airline disaster to ever occur in the Basque Country happened just outside of my dad’s hometown of Munitibar. Even today, the crash is imprinted on the collective minds of the local Basques – more than once it has come up in conversation when I’ve visited the Basque Country. While […]