European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Simon tit rain a fed in a traditional Beret and Scarf Chairety the Basque festival this year in Buffalo Wyo. Jurj keeping iberian traditions alive by Tad a associated fir a fro.1-.to. L inf la Alpo grasslands Volo Irie Lively streets of american basques Are culebialmg11 ,.-.c.b of ethnic traditions thai Tracei Jar. A i " Marie. Age myst cry in rough Al the i Estem United Stales those Hearty people Vulio Hisil from the pyrenees mountains along the horde blk Cen France and Spain Hava formed social dubs Hete hey con speak their own language eat spicy Clion of sausages and sweetbreads drenched in Gahr. Drink vinegary red who and ams Etso Collee and share a heritage that has baffled scholars Lor centuries. About 75,000 to 100,000 americans have Basque blood although they Are commonly referred to As a Laski we Hoy Call themselves skua Dunak and. is the Len for choir native land to Ellivo in the was blending , and Moylan Homo Idaho. Bai or shield Ca lit., and wine Mecca nov Khoo they ire As solid citizens and patriots they take. Garcal Druio m claiming Basque sailors helped discover Iho Nova orld about 20 of Christopher Columbus crewmen were Bizaca Irb or Basque people says or pal bieler a proo3-.cr ill Boio slalom univ Cisily i Itaho and an up it on Gaj i Ali h. American Hara Simon Bolivar and Ferdinand a tag Titan Nikalo Juan Sebastian tint Cane were also Baw Jucs. Ohira came to California Irum Mexico a i a Spanish explorers in the 600s and 1700s Tho real m Lus did t begin unlit she Middle of the isl it Flury Wilh the Gold Jusli biota a Syi a move by untied California lawmakers to tas non Cilen miners Foroi Nowc the basques to turn up agn culture Iri the Rich contral Valley. Lili tucked away in Somo Stow to Chango Wos Lorn no igbo hoods. Usually near a Railroad Lalion where passenger trains Don i Stop anymore Are a few Basque Page 16 the Rev Joseph Hart leads a special Basque mass the stars and stripes saturday november 5,1938 boarding houses. A Century ago they Ware iliac with Many Young shepherds Iresh Oil lha boat trying to gel., a Start in a strange new country most american Basque armies arc Only Ona or two generations removed irom a patriarch who crossed America by train with Only a Lew coins in his pocket and o sign around his neck staling his destination in English so the conductor could Tell him where to get Oil. Brothers followed Brothers cousins trailed cousins to the vast sheep Fange . Basques took their wages in old ewes and began building their own herds one animal at a Lima. From Thosa fledgling flocks Many basques went on to acquire big ranches and in some cases great wealth accumulated by frugal living. Many Nativ Basque women also came alone 1o America to work in boarding houses and restaurants and marry the transplanted shepherds. 1 two stereotypes of american basques obscure their True collective character today. One is a lingering romantic notion Bolh in hair european Homeland on lha iberian Peninsula and in the United states that has been fostered by books and movies ii portrays them As tranquil Farmers lending herds and locks drinking copious amounts of wine irom their leather pouches and singing sad songs Voltaire described them As the Peop Yowho dwell or rather who dance Al of the pyrenees.". To passed Lols of basques with oxen or cattle hauling carts along the Road and Nice farmhouses Low roofs and Al wrote Ernest Mcmin Kwayin the Sun also rises. In the Basque country the land All looks very Rich and Green and the houses Ond villages look Welt off and clean Biete estimates that today As few As 10 percent of american basques Are in the sheep business Tho main reason their parents and grandparents cams to this country. Basques now Are found at All econ Ornic educational and social Levels and include former. Republican son Paul Udall of Nevassa and Idaho s Secretary of stale Pete be Laffusa. The other stereotype of basques Lortis from their
