Jim Looney - interview - Transcript (part 2).

Abstract

"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."