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Highlights The most recent Nevada Magazine (Vol. 37, No. 2, April-June 1977) has an article by Robert Laxalt entitled “The Sheepmen.” This is an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Nevada: A Bicentennial History, to be published this summer by the American Association for State and Local History and the W.W. Norton & Company with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. William A. Douglass is the co-author, with Stanford M. Lyman, of “L’ethnie: structure, processus et saillance” in the Cahiers Internationale de Sociologie, Vol. LXI (1976), pp. 197-220. William H. Jacobsen, Jr., spoke in April at the University of California, Berkeley, at the invitation of the Historical Linguistics Study Group. He spoke about his recent work in the reconstruction of prehistoric Basque. William A. Douglass presented a paper entitled “Investing an Ethnic Identity: The First Basque Festival” to the annual meeting last November in Washington, D.C. of the American Anthropological Association. Professor Roslyn M. Frank of the State University of Iowa spoke to the University of Nevada-Reno Linguistics Colloquium in November on “Morpho-Semantic Field Theory: A Tool for the Evaluation of the Basque Language and Its Relationship to the Languages of the Indo-European Group.” A revised version of Richard Etulain and Virginia Jacobsen: Selected Bibliography of English-Language Materials Relating to the Basques (1975) has been prepared and copies are available upon request at no charge. During the 1976-77 academic year at the University of Nevada-Reno the second year of Basque language instruction was given by Gorka Aulestia, and Jon Bilbao taught the course on Basque history during the spring semester. The staff of the Basque Studies Program would like to express their gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Dominique Idiart for their help during our move into new quarters. Many of our readers may have seen the Associated Press article by Paul Finch which was published in many newspapers across the United States. It featured the Program and has generated much interest in our activities. We are happy to welcome the many new subscribers to our newsletter brought to us by this article. The Basque Studies Program would like to thank all those who in the course of the year have made donations in support of our many activities, including the publication of this newsletter. Occasionally we receive sizeable donations which make possible the realization of major research and publishing projects. At this time we would like to acknowledge with gratitude the very generous gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jean Urruty of Grand Junction, Colorado. |
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