Tickets go on sale this week for events at Jaialdi 2025, the massive Basque festival that will be held from July 29 to August 3 in Boise, Idaho. Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Boise’s outdoor Basque Block and nearby venues for lively celebrations of all things Basque. There's...

A small but informative exhibit on Basque tree carvings and Basques in Kern County at Cal State Bakersfield is well worth a visit. It is located on the second floor of the Stiern Library on the university campus. The Lonesome Trail: Arboglyphs and Basque Sheepherders in the Far West is the title of...

Basque immigrants flocked to the American West from the late 1880s through the mid-1960s. The pioneers operated boarding houses, built handball courts and started businesses in places such as San Francisco, Mountain Home, Idaho, Jordan Valley, Oregon and Salt Lake City. Many of the buildings that housed...

In 2021, while driving back to Colorado from her daughter’s wedding in Palm Springs, Colorado Basque Club President Mayi Berterretche Petracek stumbled upon Plaza Urrutia in the town of Grand Junction. She had known that there was a Basque handball court somewhere in the area, but had never seen it....

This summer, a song in Euskera about the famous Basque poet sheepherder of Urepel, France is making its way from state to state, played for many audiences across the United States who have never heard lyrics in this language. I’m telling you this moving story from my personal perspective, as the...