This project was undertaken by the Architectural Research Center (ARC) preservation team of the Texas Tech University College Of Architecture under the supervision of Gary Smith, Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture. The team members include: Jessica Garcia, Jonathan Oltman, Wei Xiong, and Sara Girotto. Site documentation for the project was done the first week of July of 2002. In House Project documentation was completed in the Fall 2002 and Spring 2003. Archeological consultation was provided by Peggy Gaudy from The Bureau of Land Management, Farmington, New Mexico Field Office. Funding for this project was provided by The Bureau of Land Management through the U.S. National Park Service.

The name Kin Yazhi is Navajo and translates into English as little house. The pueblito Kin Yazhi and one of two forked-stick hogans at the site were excavated in the late 1930s.

The pueblitos are masonry structures containing one to forty or more rooms found in the Navajo homeland, the dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early eighteenth century, the pueblitos are significant indicators of the complex social relations that existed between the Navajo, Utes, pueblos and other tribes, and with the Spaniards.