<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Punk music preserves indigenous culture</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">From PRI's The World</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">11 August, 2010 03:38:00</span><br><br><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">(audio sample)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The band Hamac Caziim mixes punk music with traditional stories and language to celebrate the Seri culture.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">When the members of Hamac Caziim don their guitars, tassels and face paint, their aim is about more than just putting on a great show. They're also trying to preserve the language of the Seri Nation, from the Sonora region of Northern Mexico. Eduardo Diaz, executive director of the Smithsonian Latino Center told PRI's The World:</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">They were actually authorized by the elders of the particular pueblo, of the community, to go ahead and use rock music as a way to preserve the language and to get more of the youth involved in the preservation because there was a fear that the language would disappear.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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