 By the 1970s she had received numerous awards from the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial and had become a well-known and successful potter.Gonzales taught her son Tse-Pe to make pottery along with his wife Dora and their daughter Irene.Gonzales and Tse-Pe sometimes worked together, especially when creating pottery in duotones (two shades of the same color).