Thats great Frank, if you look at my profile you can find the tribe...its open to all right now. And I cant agree with you more about how underappreciated the basques are in this country.

Recently I was thinking about the invisibility of the Basques in America. Recent western history research like the arborglyphs and new organizations like those in Boise are bringing more awareness about this large minority. While Western history acknowledges the bitter and violent battle between sheep ranchers and cattlemen,most of the sheep people were probably Basque. In S. Colorado rural plains where I now live, I have met a lady whose family were sheep herders here. They were desperately poor and not well accepted by the local cattle folks. Her whole family is gone with no sign of them ever having been here. It was a tough life for them. Her family's experience is another mini-diaspora.

I think that the Basque work ethic and their white skin allowed them to integrate within a generation. They disappeared into the American capitalist culture.

Good luck on organizing. gero arte Txiki Txakurreme