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A green and orange map of the Colorado Plateau, United States.

Uranium map of the Colorado Plateau, ca. mid 1900s

In the mid 1900s, much of the uranium mining in the United States was concentrated in the Southwestern states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado—also known as the Four Corners region.
Many of these mines were found both within and just outside Native American reservations.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine