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Gregory Cajete. Greg is a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa Indian Tribe and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dr. Cajete is the author of Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education; Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, and the editor and author of numerous other books and articles in the areas of science education for Native American learners, Indigenous Ecology, and culturally-based curriculum development.
Greg has taught extensively at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where he was the founding Director of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange, and at the University of New Mexico, where he is currently an assistant professor in the College of Education. He has lectured widely in schools, universities, and for education programs throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
Dr. Cajete also operates a private educational consulting arts business, Tewa Educational Arts, specializing in comprehensive educational planning, multicultural/environmental curricula, and program development in science, social science, and art.
Greg says, “Through my years of interdisciplinary teaching and diversity of experience, I have gained an appreciation and contexted base of understanding regarding the issues, controversies, and challenges related to development of an environmental and cross-cultural curriculum which addresses concerns and needs of native American learners. I believe in applying a holistic and ecological approach to life in my work as an educator, artist, and consultant. I view all aspects of humanity as being dynamic inter-relationship with all other aspects of self and the environments I create and which create me.”
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Last updated july 7, 2006.
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