Waniyetu Yawapi:
Lakota Winter Counts
This exhibit displays and interprets the Winter Counts collected by Fr. Eugene Buechel, S.J. which are currently in the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum as well as in the archive of Marquette University.
Wintercounts Collected by Fr. Buechel, S.J. - Father Buechel collected seven pictorgraphic winter counts which are all stored in the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum in St. Francis, South Dakota.
Interpretive Articles on Buechel Winter Count Collection - Linea Sundstrom provides several articles on Winter Counts in the Buechel collection and elsewhere.
Bibliographical Sources on Lakota Winter Counts - This page provides citations for further study of Lakota winter counts.
Other Winter Count Web Sites - In addition to our own page, there are several other winter counts available on the world wide web.
This Virtual Wintercount Exhibit was created by Raymond A Bucko, S.J. with the generous assistance of Linea Sundstrom who provided interpretive artilces and Christina Burke who assisted with the identification and classification of the winter counts in the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum collection.