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Gregory Cajete (b. 1952), a Tewa author and professor from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, and author of the book Look to the Mountain.

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Gregory Cajete is a practicing ceramic, pastel, and metal artist.

He has also received several fellowships and academic distinctions since his start.

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✂️ Gregory Cajete - Mutually Reciprocal Relationships

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59 seconds · Clipped by Austin Gulick · Original video "Tribal Wisdom for Life-Enhancing Relationships: Dr. Gregory Cajete and Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees" by ...

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Cajate believes that being together in community is the place where each person can become complete and express the fullness of their life.

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One of the most important lessons that Gregory Cajete learned was the importance of community and family, his grandmother had taught him this. Community and family were not just relationships with other people, but instead a relationship to the place we live and have lived, the relationship to the land itself, and caring for the land. Not only is it about the relationship, but it is also about the responsibility that the community, as well as each person in the community, has to care for and encourage the growth of both the community and the land. Knowing the importance of community and the relationship to the land shows a reciprocal kind of relationship that allows for the land to succeed and regenerate itself while providing food and nourishment.

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"Community is the context in which the Indian person comes to know the nature of relationship, responsibility, and participation in the life of one's people." - Gregory Cajete

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Cajete talked about how they would bring gifts for their relatives and would, in turn, leave with gifts that they didn't have at home, which is how things would get around their community. He also talked about how they would help the elders by taking on some of their work.

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He worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 21 years. While at the Institute, he served as Dean of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange, Chair of Native American Studies and Professor of ethno science. He organized and directed the First and Second Annual National Native American Very Special Arts Festival held in respectively in Santa Fe, NM in 1991 and Albuquerque, NM in 1992.  In 1995, he was offered a position in American Indian education in the University of New Mexico, College of Education.