Indigenous Basques have claimed the right to self-determination since 1990. They retain traditional culture, language and customary rights to land.
On February 15 1990, by an absolute majority of 38 votes, the Basque Parliament proclaimed:
"The Basque People have the right to self-determination.
This right resides in the lawful authority of its citizens to take decisions, freely and democratically, on their political, economic, social and cultural status, either by providing themselves with their own political framework or by sharing their sovereignty, totally or in part, with other peoples".
The Basque Country has had its own Government and autonomous Parliament since the arrival of democracy in Spain in the late nineteen seventies.
As indigenous people, they're much more fortunate in this regard than other aboriginal peoples. I wonder when this democracy business will arrive in Australia and America?
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