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Item Jim Looney - interview - Transcript (part 2).(UNPUBLISHED, 1951-11-04) Looney, Jim"Just Puck-Hyah-Toot, Tomalawash, Frank So Happy and Looney know the old songs of the Wa-Shat. There are 100 or more of them, all old. No one living now who brought back song from the land of the dead. Some brought back one song. Some brought back four or five, at different times. Smo-Wha-La brought back several. They were songs that were never changed. They are sung now just as brought back. Had special song for funerals. Had songs before Smo-Wha-La. The Indians who brought back the songs didn't get paid for them like white men's songs are paid for."Item Jim Looney - interview - Transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1951-07-19) Looney, Jim"Old ancestor, at first gathering of Indians held on the place, told and predicted of future...passing of Indian. 'He walked around or danced around twice, then took out white and put on ground. Explained that grass would disappear...tall then, now short, Indian would go the same way. Forecast eventually all Indians would pass, meaning pure Indians. He took two rocks, clasped them under his arms, said now look and pulled them out and there was a looking glass. You looked in it and saw just bones, like a skull...you saw the future."Item Washat Dance and Yakama/Wanapum translations(Yakima Valley Libraries, 1951-10-28) Relander, Click; Buck, Johnny; Looney, Jim20 min. recording with introduction by Click Relander, a brief comparison of Yakama and Wanapum nouns and numbers as spoken by native speakers, Puck Hyah Toot and drummers performing Smohalla's Whashat dance, and a few spoken sentences in the Wanupum language.