Basque Community Website Links
Below is a list of links to other excellent websites for more
information about the Basque community.
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Ellis Island Resources
Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation
The Foundation was created n 1982 when President Ronald Reagan asked Lee Iacocca, then Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, to head a private sector effort to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island including the creation of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.
National Park Service Ellis Island Site
Ellis Island was added to the National Park System in May of 1965 by Presidential Proclamation. It took over a quarter of a century for part of the island to be restored. In September of 1990, the main building re-opened as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The park, comprised of Liberty and Ellis Islands, is administered by the National Park Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior.
Information About Basques
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
The Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides a look into the heritage of the Basque communities of Idaho and surrounding areas. Through hard work and the support of many individuals, businesses, foundations, and Basque communities, the Museum began to interpret the rich and colorful history of the Basques, their origins, and their new life in America.
UNR Center for Basque Studies
The mission of the Univeristy of Nevada Reno Center for Basque Studies is to conduct and publish Basque-related research. Anthropology, history, women’s studies, cultural studies, literature, bibliography, and lexicography have thus far been our main fields of research.
Boise State Basque Studies Program
The Basque Studies Program at Boise State University is a multi-disciplinary course of advanced study that involves all aspects of the language, culture and history of the Basque people.
Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture
The Cenarrusa Foundation was founded in 2003 by Pete T. and Freda Cenarrusa as a cultural advancement and funding organization in support of the Basque cultural experience in Idaho and Eastern Oregon.
EITB.com
EITB has more than 25 years of experience in the communication world. During this time it has consolidated as a modern and efficient media that daily goes over to more than one million citizens, to whom it mainly offers close information and entertainment about the Basque experience worldwide.
Sponsor Websites
The Basque Government
The Basque Country is located at the western end of the Pyrenees on the Bay of Biscay. Today it consists of seven herrialdes , or districts which, for political and administrative purposes, form part of two different European countries: Araba , Bizkaia , Gipuzkoa and Nafarroa are in Spain, and Lapurdi , Zuberoa and Benafarroa are in France.
Idaho Humanities Council
The Idaho Humanities Council seeks to deepen understanding of human experience by connecting people with ideas, by encouraging civility and good citizenship, and by initiating community conversations about ideas that enlighten us about the past and light our way toward wisdom and a meaningful future.
Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture
The Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture promotes the culture and history of the Basques by providing resources for performances, presentations and programs and to organizations throughout Idaho and Oregon. The Foundation is the entity that can provide the added degree of assistance – financial or professional – that can make the critical difference for any organization that seeks to promote Basque Culture.
North American Basque Organizations
The North American Basque Organizations (a.k.a. N.A.B.O.) was founded in 1973 with the intent of helping its member organizations to assist each other in the pursuit of the same objective: the perpetuation of "Basqueness" (Basque culture and identity).
San Francisco Basque Cultural Center
The San Francisco Basque Cultural Center is a gathering place for Basques from Northern California and beyond. The center features a very popular restaurant that is open to the public, and a large indoor hand ball court.
Euzko-Etxea of New York
Euzko-Etxea of New York occupies a building that was formerly a two story church. The community renovated it to include a large kitchen and bar, a dining room, a small meeting room or classroom for language classes, a small library, and the upstairs is a reception hall for special events that can seat more than 400 persons. A stage and piano complete the second floor reception hall.
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