Abstract
In the summer of 2006, a group representing Native American tribes from all over the southwestern United States came together with agents of the U.S. Forest Service and created a boundary to delineate a traditional and sacred space. This boundary designation, known as a traditional cultural property or TCP, was created in reaction to the attempted exploitation of the area for uranium mining, an issue that has plagued the region since the mid-1940s. This contested landscape is the peak and mesas collectively known as Mt. Taylor, located in northwestern New Mexico, which sits atop the nation’s largest single deposit of high-grade uranium.
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Allison, P.L. (2012). Bounding a Sacred Space: Mapping the Mt. Taylor Traditional Cultural Property. In: Liebenberg, E., Demhardt, I. (eds) History of Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19088-9_10
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