The Pelathe Community Resource Center

Project Support: Medicinal/Vegetable Gardening Project

The Pelathe Center is forging a networking and knowledge exchange between the Native American students attending the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University and a younger generation of Native students attending local Jr. and Sr. High Schools within the Lawrence school district. The college students will serve as mentors and equal learners alongside the younger students in planning and developing a traditional medicinal and vegetable garden, providing self-identity opportunities and a sense of ‘community’ among Native youth.