To a certain degree New Mexico's Indian Reservations function as states within a state where tribal law may supersede state law.
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The Navajo, the Nation's largest Native American Group, have a reservation in New Mexico that covers 14 million Acres.
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Grants, New Mexico was at one time known as the "Carrot capital of the country" until the process of cellophane wrapping began and California took over title. More recently Grants has been known as the "Uranium capital of the world".