Today, Dinétah and the Gobernador meet where stories in stone and song have left their mark on the landscape. Now, the pueblitos share the canyons with pump houses and oil patch trucks stir up white dust on quiet afternoons.

In the Navajo communities around Dinétah, elders remember who built these sites; the healers and hataali, the medicine men, still sing songs of Dinétah, a place most Navajo people have never seen. What lies ahead for Dinétah and the Gobernador?

The pueblitos are still being studied and the more subtle archaeology of the old hogan sites is being explored in mesa-top and canyon survey projects. Long-forgotten homes are added to the records every year and archaeologists continue to learn about life in these remote sites. Working together, archaeologists and traditional historians from Navajo communities are filling in details of the Navajo experience in this region.

The legacy of Dinétah and the Gobernador lies with those who continue to study its two worlds. Those with a taste for backcountry exploration can visit the Gobernador; while there, they may see the children of Dinétah coming back to learn their history in the place it was made.