Angels are often pictured playing harps, but Ray Mansisidor expects soon, they might be playing accordions, taught by the late Jim Jausoro. Mansisidor, a Treasure Valley Basque of 88 years, was taught ...

There is a quote in this weekend’s special report, “Euskal Herritik,” that says that even children who are one-eighth Basque are still “so damn proud to be Basque.” That can’t be any more correct. I’m ...

It may come as a surprise that the Georgians of the former Soviet Union and the Basques of ancient Iberia, now Spain and Portugal, have a common ancestry, but early Greeks and Romans called those ...

I have never really given a damn about my own mongrel ethnicity—I care about place, not race—and besides, there are many mysteries to which I don’t particularly want to know the answer. I heed Dr.

The Basque militant group ETA, which killed hundreds of people over a bloody, decades-long campaign for independence, has ceased to exist, the organization announced Wednesday in an open letter. After ...

Way back then, loud, proud and bleeding Basque blood, the tough, uncompromising sides built by the no-nonsense Javier Clemente went to war, in the process winning back-to-back La Ligas in 1983 and ...

Their numbers may be small, but Basques and their descendants have left an indelible mark on Nevada — so much so that the theme of the 34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko is “Basques & ...

Some U.S. cities have become practically synonymous with the ethnic and religious groups who have settled there, such as the proud Irish Americans of Boston’s “Southie” neighborhood (see also: every ...

The California gold rush brought the first Basque immigrants to the United States in the 1840s. After the gold dried up, many of their descendants stayed in the Central Valley region, turning to the ...