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BERET ON HEAD AND WALK ON
EARTH
WHAT´S A BASQUE?
What´s a Basque?
What makes a Basque person
Basque?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopqGyRgKD8
THE BERET…OR TXAPELA!(AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS)
TXAPELA´S... EVOLUTION
Once upon a time the men discover the txapela……
Basque people jointed the fiesta and the txapela
The txapela also play in the Jai Alai
derechos de autor.
Famous people use txapela…. Txapela is cool
From north to south…… txapela run the world
Also in movies
The best prize is the txapela……
and now it is our turn….
BERET ON HEAD AND WALK ON
EARTH
• How do we see Ourselves?
• How do English people see us
overseas?
• How do Basque living in English world
see us and see themselves?
ENGLISH TO BASQUE
• We are the oldest language in Europe and the remains of
the pre-indoeuropean inhabitants.
• Our language is completely different
• We like party and bull runs
• We have similar rural sports to Scottish
• We are their descendants (see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgqjLMESS78)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzdhz81kOpg 3.28
THE BASQUE IN THE ENGLISH
WORLD
• Basque fishermen have been in America long ago
• Started to come to the US for work or exile after the first
Carlist Wars (1830)
• They came for sheeping and spent more than 9 months
travelling along with the sheep in the country!
• Today there are 57.793 Americans of full or partial descent
• Nevada, California, Idaho, Washington and Oregon
LIFE IN THE DIASPORA!
• Prepare an short performance (30’) about Basque people
basing yourselves on the characters and stories shown on
the cards given to groups
• After we´ll see the real case.
RECORDS
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmrmYR4MMDE&featur
e=related
• 0.25/2.28-4.00/4.40
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopqGyRgKD8 5.14
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCZi8pbdTgw&feature=r
elmfu 1.53-2.14
AND THE WINNER ISSS…