Wow, years ago, back in 1973-74 my husband worked for a Basque Sheep Rancher in Eastern Washington. After a training period, we were put out in the middle of nowhere with several sheep and a sheepherders wagon. We were newly married and it was like camping. Thanks for the memories.
I had a problem with my texting I meant I grew up on a sheep ranch in Caribou county. The Life is just that way,. Our herder was called Frank he had been here for years and spoke good english. He returned to Spain with enough saving to buy his own sheep , We got a Christmas card from him every year until he passed on.
My grandfather on dad's side herded sheep out of Lander, Wyoming. He had is own sheepherders wagon & 2 horses. In later years he took the wagon wheels off & put it on a truck. Did sheep herding & was a hunting guide for hunters from all over the country.
Thanks for posting this video as it has made me learn more about my culture. As any basque person can see by name that I carry the basque name from my grandfather. I am very proud of my grandfathers name from the old country. I like to let others know that the basque do not speak Spanish as many think. They speak their own language that is so old they have no record of it's origins. It is one of the most unique cultures of Europe.
I love the way you did this video Kirsten. The Basque culture intercut with the sheep herding that built that very culture. I've watched your channel grow from just a few hundred subscribers to nearly half a million! I love being transported to different places through your lens and I hope to do this very kind if travel and documenting of buildings, places, people, culture and more. Thank you so much for another incredible video helping my sick disabled self dream of the future and forget another painful day. I live in an old 1976 rv in a commercial storage unit/garage where I used to have my business before falling ill so I have a lot in common with the incredible people you show and feel real kinship that I'm not all alone. Thanks again your channel means a lot to me.
Holy shit...that's Henry! He is a live wire kinda guy & easy to be around as you no doubt found Kirsten. As an immigrant I too fell in love with this area in the late 90's & built a home & a business in the mountains north of Lava & got to know Henry by rescuing his water tankers from the high country. When you get off the pavement here it's wide open country like it's always been.
Kirsten, we'd never be able to see these things if not for your work! Mucho gracious, mi amigo. We've been to Barcelona area for work many times. Oh me, got so sick of paella! Paella, paella, paella, everywhere. That and tapas. Hey y'all, let's go eat Spanish food! Said nobody. Wha' we gonna do for wool and lamb meat when y'all herder boys are gone? We need people doing that important work. Si, asta la vista mi amigo.
I love that this isn't some yuppie dude explaining to us how he is connecting with nature in order to refine his art as he lives off of a trust fund (not that there is anything wrong with that). It's just nice to see that people live this way because they need to, because there is a utility to it and not because they have some sort of statement to make.
We don’t need depressions to make people not be spoiled.....we need people to hold their kids accountable for their actions, make them do chores, and not give them everything g they want ....... the children became spoiled because the parents spoiled them. You can make things better for your children without spoiling them.
Oh, my God Kirsten. You can Speak Español.How wonderful and Ye gods, from afar am I proud of you.And I speak Hungarian and can read Spanish a fair bit. Jolly good it is to know more than English.DO trust in God that the way of life will not Die out after t his Lovely Gent passes from our Earth.
I had watched this video previously dear Kirsten. It is amazing and so awesome to see people from overseas who went to Amerika to build a good life and a future.I had commented on another video where they were building Shepherds wagons.I so much admire your videoing and how great it is to see and watch it grow in popularity. May you continue to give us your viewers more joy of different places and countries to experience.Not all of the folks can Go overseas to see beautiful places. So, if I may say, Keep on going with success into the future and keep people having more joy with your good videos. God bless.Oh, i wondered if this Gentleman can still speakc the Basque Language of his Father or his Family?
Imagine what a couple of solar panels would do for the lifestyle. This is a really good video. I have enjoyed all of your videos Kirsten, but this is my favorite.
I have been to Spain and Portugal and Portugal has the most friendly people I know. I also lived in Idaho and met Basque people. Just recently my uncle Bill passed away was from Portugal he was 93. He was such a wonderful man. We just called him uncle Bill. The Portuguese are very hard-working people. Uncle Bill was so handy he built a cabin in the mountains so he could retire there with his wife my aunt. Are used to go up before my aunt passed away and just enjoy the countryside of stonyford California. It is a very small community with a lot of poor people they only have one corner market and one restaurant combination bar there. We usually just brought our food with us and barbecue outside on about 4 foot high barbecue pit that my uncle Bill made and I've never seen one like it. I'd love to have one made in my backyard just like uncle Bill's. you can actually put a barstool around it and stay warm. I brought my cast-iron Lodge skillet and made biscuits over the coals. They turned out wonderful. Makes me homesick for the countryside. I was young when I lived in Idaho and I did not appreciate the farmland much as I would now!!
very wonderful coverage of a beautiful time in American history. I love how you've given great insight into the "sheppard's hut" and shown it's practical and original use, not simply showing some urbanite using it as a studio.
There were many local productive and creative cultures that have been lost for lack of valuing them in time. I worked as an assistant to an anthropologist. One of the cures that some breast cancers respond to was no more than a traditional medicine anecdote that a pharmacology student researched. How many more solutions to problems are lost when culture and language is lost...
What a wonderful gentleman. I would happily work in his sheep camps. I enjoy staying out with my sheep and looking after them. Animals raised like this are so much better for earth, the sheep, and the people who eat and utilize them. Much love ❤️ 🙏
this reminds me of my early years when i just started school my little village that had about 30 families my grandfather was a shepherd n he used to live few miles off the village looking after his flock goats n sheep n used to come to the village when it was time to milk the animals to make the Best yogurt I ever had on earth n cheese, but he just couldn't wait to get back to the mountains his little stone build room n a fenced yard for his animals, many times he said to me there are too many people in the village n they talk about each other behind their backs he just loved the solitude of the mountains even my granny was not happy with him any times, sometimes i think if he could come back today in a big city he will go mad i never remember him getting angry once
@@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions now in my old age i wished I lived the same as my grandfather did but who does when u know its so much to explore in this world at the end of the day though i know his life was so much cleaner pure honest compared to mine am at least a 1000 times sinner next to him he married my grandmother when she was 14 n non of them would even imagine ever touching anyone else my parents father was a bit of a womanizer b4 he got married sadly generation after generation we are ALL getting corrupted more n more we are also loosing respect for each other too sad But who can resist it even angels sinned for having women
THE DOCUMENTARIES ARE REMARKABBLE, THE PEOPLE, THE LAND THE STORIES. I AM ALWAYS HUMBLED WHEN I SEE A STORY LIKE THIS. I TOO AM IN IDAHO WAITING TO BUILD MY HOUSE LIVING IN MY TRUCK.
when I started this video, I thought 25 minutes! I'll just skip thru if I get bored. Well, I didn't get bored at all. what a great video, thank you for sharing! I am so glad I subscribed to your channel. It''s funny, I felt that the thought that living tiny was a new concept, but it isn't and it hasn't been since the modernization of man. We just forget what is important and put all of our energy into what is not. live smarter, not harder!
Kirsten, your little productions are getting better and better. I really appreciate this one, because people just don't have a clue what it takes to eek out a way of life in some of our wilderness, and that there are many jobs the normal rank and file just would not do. I live in what I call my cave, living space build inside of a huge steel pole building. I'm hoping to build a tiny cabin here, and use this for a warm winter shop. I'm completely off grid, use a cell booster antennae, have solar, soon to get up a wind device I had built locally. People just don't realize the amount of work it takes to do things, the nearest real hardware store being 32 miles away, which is really good compared to what others do. Take care, and keep up the good work!
that is such beautiful bush country , and i agree when he says at 16:30 into the video , that if you cant appreciate this , something is wrong with your head ,,
Very cool video, we recently picked up a sheep wagon so it was fun to see a working one. I grew up on a cow outfit but my dad and Grandpa talked about sheep and sheep wagons all the time. I hope Etcheverry is able to find a passionate young person to take over his place.
Love the Basque culture! Thankfully, there are still many Basque families living/working/thriving in Northern Nevada. It's pretty awesome to see the shepherds moving their flocks twice a year. They move their flocks right down our street as if we weren't even here. It's pretty surreal...like two mismatched timelines briefly converging. It's nothing short of miraculous to watch these shepherds move HUNDREDS of sheep over mountains, across major highways, through new housing subdivisions...usually with nothing more than a couple of well-trained dogs. Most shepherds that I've seen don't even ride horses, they just walk alongside the sheep, give an occasional whistle, and that's about it. How they keep them all together, I'll never know. I'll be very sad when we no longer see them moving across land. And Basque people from the Pyrenees are awesome...such a unique heritage that they should all be rightfully proud of!
Absolutely fantastic, informative video. I've always been fascinated by stateless nations, and this was a great peek at a historic ethnic enclave I was unaware of.
thankyou its so nice to be able to learn in this way ,good honest journalism I love the way you did this video Kirsten. The Basque culture intercut with the sheep herding that built that very culture
I am 26 years old and I would love to be this man right hand I grew up in countryside of puerto rico play with my grandfather cheap cows and horses my parents decided to leave that all behind to Pursuit a better future for us and we came to United States when I was six years old but honestly I miss the countryside I hate every single moment of living in the city I cannot wait until finally graduate from college and go back but I would love to be this man's right hand men guess what I saw in the video that is extremely beautiful and he's right if you cannot appreciate that you are a lost case
During a long distance off road motorcycle trip ,I saw a couple of those covered wagons deep in the remote backcountry of Idaho. Didn't know the full story until seeing this.
I worked for a school district some years ago and the company Service Master came in as contract supervision my new boos was a Bask person,ma very good man and Genuine man.
The largest concentration of basques outside the basque country is in Latin America, mostly in Chile and Argentina but also somehow in Mexico. US comes very far in basque descendant. To put it into prespective about 27% to 40% of Chile has basque ancestry (about 5.2 to 7.7 million), in Argentina 10% of the population is Basque (about 4.6 million). America has around 150 000 (40 000 in Idaho and about 60 000 in California. The rest all across the US Many coming in after 1925s). So in a way basques are a bit to Latin America, like the Scottish or the Irish were for the Anglosaxon world.
Hello Kirsten, you should definetely check out Allen Savory 's TED speach on overgrazing. This is really important that we end this wrong "so called" knowledge"
The nearest relatives of this shepherd are gonna be rich when he passes. Two lifetimes of land sold to the highest bidder. Worth millions by now. With that much land and raising only sheep, I imagine paying taxes have been a challenge.
