In this computer age, just a fast look will tell you Aztec a town of 6,000 is a long way from the Navajo or Ute reservations. Sure teens everywhere have gangbanger wannabees in small towns and yes reservations. But it's a very small percentage. Actec has 1 high school, 1 middle school and 3 elementary schools populated with the kids of ranchers, farmers, oilfield workers primarily. The large part of the native population lives off the reservation mixed with all the rest. The natives contribute no more to crime than any other demographic in the area. It's not a ghetto, barrio etc. It's classic small town rural America. Some folks just need to take a breath, back off and maybe read before they type assumptions.
I think there are a lot of drugs though. I have a house very close to Aztec. Every year, the elementary school right up the road from me has several PSAs on the bulletin board (on the roadway) about crystal meth awareness.
When I sold my property there in NW NM, the man who bought it looked warily at the neighbors next door and wondered if they might be Mexicans.
I told him it was a family of Navajos and he let out a sigh of relief and said.... “I’m glad it’s just Indians! Mexicans will steal you blind!”