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&feature

=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=rel

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1.53-2.14

AND THE WINNER ISSS…