Indigenous People: The Basque

Basques

The Basque people has a homeland but no nation of their own. 

The Basques, pronounced as “Basks”, is an inhabited and the oldest ethnic group located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay locating parts of North-Eastern Spain and South-Western France. The Basques lived in small isolated villages and governed with a democracy in which the residents of a house voted as a unit rather than as individuals.

I have found a very interesting saying about the Basques which says: “Before God was God and boulders were boulders, the Basques were already Basques”. In my opinion, it means that each of the Basques people has their own mode of life, individual value systems, traditions and beliefs. They want to be differentiate from other people, or you can say to be unique.

There are 4 Spanish Basque provinces such as the Vizcaya, Guipuzcoa and Navarra.