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Activities of the History Committee I organized the photographs collected during the research about NABO and stored them at the Basque Library of the University of Nevada, Reno, with a description for each one of them. The book on the History of NABO was published and presented during the World Congress in July. The Reno Zazpiak Bat Club will donate its archives (the copies) to the University of Reno Basque Library. I will make the copies, organize the files and work on a detailed description of these archives. Maybe more clubs could follow their example. I will be more than happy to go to the clubs and make copies of their archives in order to donate them to the Basque Library. If a club is willing to donate the original archives, just like NABO did, they are more than welcome to do so. These archives can be of different type: meeting minutes, newsletters, membership lists, correspondence of any sort, photographs, etc.

NABO AND ITS CLUB MEMBERS 

Clubs represented at the First Western States Basque Convention in March 1973

Reno Zazpiak Bat Club

Boise Euzkaldunak, Inc.

Elko Euzkaldunak Club

San Francisco Basque Club

Emmett (founded in the 1960s), inactive since the 1980s.

Ontario

Ely

Los Banos

Founding members of NABO: First NABO Convention in the summer of 1973

Reno Zazpiak Bat Club (founded in 1967).

Boise Euzkaldunak (founded in 1949).

Elko Euzkaldunak Club (founded in 1959).

San Francisco Basque Club (founded in 1960)

Ely (founded in 1960), inactive.

Kern County Basque Club, Bakersfield (founded in 1944).

Grand Junction Colorado, Western Slopes Association, (founded in the 1960s), inactive.

Ontario Basque Club (founded in 1947) is not represented but is a member.

1977:

Winnemucca, Euskaldunak Danak Bat (founded in 1954).

La Puente Handball Court, associate member (founded in 1947).

Los Angeles Oberena, associate member founded in the 1980s).

Menlo Park Zazpiak Bat Club (founded in 1964), inactive.

1978:

Chino Basque Club (founded in 1967).

Los Banos Basque Club (founded in 1964).

1979:

Fresno Basque Club (founded in 1978)

Caldwell Euzkaldunak charities, associate member (founded in 1970).

Southern California Eskualdun Club, associate member and full member a few months later (founded in 1946).

Salt Lake City, Basque Club of Utah (founded in 1973).

1982:

San Francisco Basque Cultural Center (founded in 1979).

Buffalo Wyoming, Big Horn Basque Club (founded in 1981).

1984:

Oinkari Basque Dancers, Boise (founded in 1960).

1985:

Las Vegas Lagun Onak (founded in 1983).

1986:

Euskal Herria Basque Club of Washington D.C, associate member (founded in 1981), inactive.

1987:

Gardnerville, Mendiko Euskaldun Cluba (founded in 1981).

Gooding Basque Club (founded in 1982).

1990

Boise Basque Museum and Cultural Center (founded in 1985).

1991:

Anaitasuna, San Francisco (founded in 1991).

Rocksprings, Alkartasuna Southwestern Wyoming Basque Club (founded in 1989).

1992

Susanville Basque Club (founded in 1975).

1993:

Euzko-Etxea of New York (founded in 1913)

Ventura Basque Club, Itxaso Alde (founded in 1993).

1994:

Washington State Basque Club, inactive

Portland Basque Club (founded in 1992), inactive since 2001.

1995:

Society of Basque Studies in America (founded in 1979)

1996:

Marin Sonoma (founded in 1989).

1997:

Spokane Inland Northwest Basque Club (founded in 1997), inactive since 2001.

Euskal Lagunak Mountain Home Basque Association (founded in 1960).

1999:

Battle Mountain Basque Club (founded in 1997).

Seattle Euskal Etxea (founded in 1997).

2001:

Center for Basque Studies, Reno (founded in 1967).

2002:

Homedale Txoko Ona Basque Club (founded in 2000).

2003:

San Francisco, Basque Educational Organization (founded in 1984)

2004:

Colorado Euskal Etxea (founded in 2003)

2005:

Cenarrussa Center for Basque Studies (founded in 2003)

2006:

Iparreko Ibarra (founded in 2005)

ACTIVE CLUB MEMBERS OF NABO IN 2006/2007: 36 clubs

Anaitasuna Basque Club

Chino Basque Club

Fresno Basque Club

Kern County Basque Club

Bighorn Basque Club

Los Banos Basque Club

Marin Sonoma Basque Association

San Francisco Basque Club

San Francisco Basque Cultural Center

Southern California Eskualdun Club

Susanville Euskaldunak

Ventura County Basque Club, Itxaso Alde

Los Angeles Oberena

Basque Museum and Basque Cultural Center

Boise Euzkaldunak

Battle Mountain Oberenak

Gooding Basque Association

Oinkari Basque Dancers Association

Elko Basque Club

Euskaldunak Danak Bat, Winnemucca

Lagun Onak Basque Club, Las Vegas

Mendiko Euskaldun Cluba

Zazpiak Bat Basque Club

Euzko Etxea of New York

Cenarrussa Center for Basque Studies

Ontario Basque Club

Colorado Euskal Etxea

Basque Club of Utah

Alkartasuna Southwestern Wyoming Basque Club

Euskal Lagunak, Mountain Home

Seattle Euskal Etxea

Society of Basque Studies in America

Center for Basque Studies, Reno

Txoko Ona, Homedale

Basque Educational Organization

Iparreko Ibarra Basque Club, Rocklin

Conventions:Music camps:Pelota finalsMus

1973: Reno1973: Boise, organized by the Idaho Basque Studies Center 

1974: Reno1974: none 

1975: Elko1975: none 

1976: Bakersfield1976: none1976: Elko

1977: Boise1977: Reno, Boise, and San Francisco1977:SanFrancisco1977: Boise

1978:Winnemucca1978: Elko1978: ?1978: Sparks

1979:SanFrancisco1979:SanFrancisco1979: in Reno1979: Bakersfield

1980: Chino1980: Fresno1980: Bakersfield1980: Elko

1981: Boise1981: Boise1981:SanFrancisco 1981: Fresno

1982: Bakersfield1982: Chino1982: Bakersfield1982: Chino

1983: Salt Lake City1983: Winnemucca1983: San Francisco1983: Elko

1984: Los Banos1984:SaltLakeCity1984: Bakersfield1984: Bakersfield

1985: Winnemucca1985: Boise1985: Elko1985: San Francisco

1986: Fresno1986: Elko1986:SanFrancisco1986:SanFrancisco

1987: Boise1987: Los Banos1987: Bakersfield1987: Los Angeles

1988: Buffalo1988: Boise1988: San Francisco1988: Los Angeles

1989: Los Banos1989: Bakersfield1989: Bakersfield1989: Elko

1990: Boise (in conjunction with the second Jaialdi)1990: Elko1990: San Francisco1990: Gardnerville

1991: Winnemucca1991: San Francisco1991: Elko1991: Gooding

1992: Reno1992: Boise1992: San Francisco1992: Bakersfield

1993: Elko1993: Chino 1993: Bakersfield1993: Elko

1994: Bakersfield 1994: Reno.1994: Elko1994:Los Angeles

1995: Buffalo1995:SanFrancisco1995:SanFrancisco1995: Los Angeles

1996: Gooding1996: Boise1996: Bakersfield1996: Gardnerville

1997: Chino1997: Bakersfield1997:SanFrancisco1997: Ventura

1998:Winnemucca1998: Elko1998:SanFrancisco1998:SanFrancisco

1999: Reno Festival)1999:SanFrancisco1999: Bakersfield1999: Bakersfield

2000: Boise2000: Wyoming2000: Boise2000: Fresno

2001: Los Banos2001:Chino 2001: Chino2001: Chino

2002:SanFrancisco2002: Reno2002: Bakersfield2002: Bakersfield

2003: Elko2003: San Francisco2003: San Francisco2003: Anaitasuna, San Francisco

2004: Bakersfield2004: Boise2004: Bakersfield2004: San Rafael, Marin wood Area, CA

2005: Rocksprings2005: Bakersfield2005: San Francisco2005:San Francisco

2006: Buffalo2006: Elko2006: Fresno2006: Gardnerville

2007: Winnemucca2007: San Francisco 2007:San Francisco

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