182:. The émigré movement has not been exclusively religious, but worked to retain Latvian culture among the emigrant population in general, and contributed to an increased interest in Latvian customs and language abroad. Brastiņš continued to publish folksongs and analyses of Baltic deities, notably in the books
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The stone Brastiņš created for
Dievturi weddings was lost during the Soviet invasion. The relaunched Dievturība movement in post-Soviet Latvia regards it as a lost relic. The 40 by 40 by 16 centimetres (15.7 in × 15.7 in × 6.3 in) stone features a Māra cross and is depicted
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and shipped from
America to Riga. The archive contains research, publications, correspondence and other material related to the works of the Brastiņš brothers, the exile Dievturība movement and the cultural and educational activities of Latvian émigrés in the United States and Canada.
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Brastiņš was married to Milda Brastiņa and had a son and a daughter. He died in the United States on 15 November 1984. His daughter Māra Grīna (1927–2017) and her husband Marģers Grīns (1928–2019) carried on his work with the publication of
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