You can not understate how bad uranium mining went for the Navajo Nation. A decent chunk of their land was heavily contaminated for a long time as a result of corporate carelessness and racism. …wikipedia.org/…/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill
This was the US’ biggest nuclear accident and one of the largest in the world (I think it’s 2nd only to Chernobyl). Yet, despite happening at about the same time as Three-Mile Island, most people don’t know about it.