Ongi etorri · Welcome
Herri txiki bat, mundu berri bateanA small nation, in a new world
From the ports of Bilbao and Bordeaux to the sheep camps of Idaho, Nevada, and California, Basque emigrants carried a language older than the Romance tongues around it — and a culture that took root across the American West. This site follows that trail, in the spirit of the landmark study Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World.
Three ways in
Hasi hemen · Start here
01 · Historia
History
Emigration waves, the sheepherding economy, and the boardinghouses (ostatuak) that anchored new arrivals from the 1850s onward.
02 · Kultura
Culture
Euskara, the Basque language; pilota and mus; dantza and music; the ikurriña; and the food of the sheep camp and the sagardotegi.
03 · Argazkiak
Gallery
Images of festivals, fronton courts, and the aspen arborglyphs herders carved into the high country.
“Wherever the sheep business took them, the Basques built a home — a boardinghouse, a handball court, a place to speak Euskara again.” In the spirit of Douglass & Bilbao, Amerikanuak
About this project
Proiektuari buruz
This template is a starting point for a community, museum, or family-history site on Basque American culture. It takes its structure and tone — a small nation traced across a vast new geography — from Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World by William A. Douglass and Jon Bilbao, the foundational study of the Basque diaspora in the Americas. Swap in your own history, photographs, and events using the pages linked in the trail below.