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Transcription: [00:45:38]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Customs, Seminole Customs? No, unh uh, no, we don't have any of that. It's all turned into the years since the last part of it, people ask me well what is your customs now? It's all gone to English and Mexican.

[00:45:56]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Although you'll find some remnants of the Seminole I don't know if it's dancing exactly, but in the church service, and stomps and that sort of thing, but that's not social-- that's not entertainment. Yeah, yeah..

[00:46:13]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
That goes along with uh, ceremonies. We used to do it a lot, but like you know, uh, all of the holidays and customs has dwindled. It's coming back now because they're teaching the heritage in the schools now has been rejuvenated... okay like, uh, we used to have a lot of people celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Day of the Saints. Those are Mexican holidays. Now, about twenty years ago, it had faltered some. But now, it's picking back up. Everybody celebrates 4th of July. What had happened in the last 35 years, uh like, all the cowboys, my people were cowboys, they worked on the ranches. They'd stay out there six months a year, and they'd come into town for the nineteenth of June to celebrate. They'd go back stay another six months, come in for the Christmas, for holidays. Well, the ranches would all know that they gonna let them go. If they don't let them go, they'd quit their jobs-- they'd go in to celebrate.

[00:47:11]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Okay, the same thing was Cinco de Mayo and Day of the Saints, it got so commercial until the uh, population of people were not giving you the day off to celebrate. So, it kinda dwindled down. "I have to have a job, so the holidays can go," but now, for heritage's sake, they're all being rejuvenated again, coming back. Cause, everybody got the 4th of July, everybody celebrates 4th of July, but different groups are going back to their heritage and starting it back up so it does not be a lost thing.