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It depends on a few of things:type of sling (some are better for the baby, some are not designed as well for baby's comfort or physiology)whether you'd be holding the baby anyway or not (generally, attachment parenting holds that the more a baby is held or worn, the better it is - something that I personally practice)In general, there has been a lot of discussion about sling use (often called babywearing). My personal opinion, based on things I've read and firsthand experience, is that a properly fitting and designed baby sling is great for a baby as an alternative to a stroller or sitting in a swing for extended periods of time. But every baby is different. My four have all loved to be carried or 'worn' in a sling/carrier. My favorites are the Moby wrap (for the younger baby) and then the Ergobaby Carriers for longer hauls and bigger babies up to toddlers(this time around, I only used the Moby in the house at first, otherwise I always used one of my two Ergos). *A note: there is still some discussion about whether forward-facing slings are a good option for babies, for a myriad of reasons. I am *not* well-informed on these anymore, because when my first son was born five years ago, I did some preliminary research about what was the thought at the time, then chose options that faced inwards. I loved them, so I've not had any reason to do more research since then, and I will personally only recommend the carriers I know and love well. See links below for more info.If you're talking sling like the ones that are an actual sling as opposed to the other styles I've linked, then I'd say that no, they're probably NOT good for a baby. Anything holding the baby in a C shape is not so good - it compresses the airways and is generally not as safe. (Ministry Health Care Newsletter)Here's why I personally think a sling is great:my babies have all been calmer while being worn - they would either fall asleep against my chest, listening to my heart, or they'd look up at me or around quietlybaby is getting close contact to a parent or caregiver, which generally makes them feel more secure and less fussyI'm able to nurse a baby in my carrier without taking it off and, as baby gets a little bit bigger, hands-freeit's way easier to use and more convenient than a stroller, especially for younger babies and toddlersI'm better able to go about my daily activities with two hands free to care for the other kids, do household chores, work on the laptop, grocery shop, etcResources:Welcome to Babywearing International, Inc. Bringing Together Babywearers EverywhereBaby Wearing | Ask Dr. SearsBenefits of Babywearing | Ask Dr Sears® | The Trusted Resource for ParentsSlings, wraps & other baby carriers - Why, How & Where?The Benefits of Baby WearingLLLI | Baby WearingOn the facing in vs. facing out debate:Why I don't like forward facing carriersForward Facing Out in a Baby CarrierNine Reasons Not to Carry Your Baby Facing OutBaby Carriers, Seats, & Other Equipment

There are a number of reasons why the tribe is big in numbers and the Navajo Nation land area is larger as well.I am going to try to state here some of the complex interactions that led the the Navajo tribes being big in land base and in population of enrolled members. I am going over the views and reasons from the outside. First, I would like to point out that in many spots I say they were lucky, that this or that factor happened. I think it is worth mentioning that in traditional Navajo conception of this issue, luck has nothing to do with it. In this view, it is more that the four original clans were created in this land by Changing Woman. The emergence place is in the San Juan Mountains. The Navajo people are supposed to live between the four sacred mountains, always moving clockwise round the two center mountains. The other clans came and joined them over time to be in this special place. Today, the 60 or so clans are where they are supposed to be living and this is why they have grown.The corn pollen path is about growth. The traditional thinkers believe in a very causal world. The attempt to live a life in Hózhǫ́ is what has led to the increase in population, health and prosperity and well being. Hózhǫ́ is the attempt to balance the always dynamic and multiple forces to be in harmony, peace, health, beauty, happiness, goodness, wholeness. There is not really just lucky breaks in this view. Having thoughts and plans, speech and actions that are in both inner and outer ways in hózhǫ́ is what has brought the tribe whatever measure of vitality and happiness it has. There is true and value in this view. Personally, I think hózhǫ́ is profound.All Native Americans suffered terrible population losses from epidemics after contact with Europeans. People who suffered this early, and at the same time were not in direct contact with Europeans and not pushed out of their land, were at times were able to have their populations increase again. In places where we have documentation that is more like modern times, such as the NW smallpox epidemic of 1862, the death rates were 40–75% from village to village. In that one, in six months about half the people from Vancouver Island north to Alaska died. Many of those who survived were maimed, blinded or sterile. There were dozens of diseases that had this sort of effect from the 1520s to about 1900. The epidemics came year after year.The Navajo had first contact in the 1540s with the Spanish. There is some evidence that epidemics came north in the 1520s from the trade routes that connected the SW to what is now Mexico. The cultures that suffered the worse were ones with dense populations in villages or towns. The Navajo lived spread out across the landscape in extended family agricultural settlements. They did not live in towns. They also had a tradition of ritually abandoning any dwelling that had someone die in it. The dead body was left there. These practices limited spread of diseases.The Navajo also benefited immensely from the successful Great Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Most of the Pueblo towns rose up together and killed and drive off all the Spanish in the SW. They had to withdraw all the way to what is now Mexico. When they returned, they were more careful. They attempted to recolonize the Hopi Mesas which are surrounded by Navajo lands in 1699. The next year they were all killed by the Hopi in 1700. The Spanish and the Mexican government after them never had colonial control of any of the Navajo lands.In part this was due to geographic luck. The land is high and dry and rugged. It ranged from 3,000 ft to over 10,000 feet. It is cold with snow in the winter. There is one rainy period (called locally the monsoons) for a sort time in the summer. It was not really good for the sort of agriculture that Europeans wanted to practice. The Grand Canyon and the Colorado and San Juan river made it unsuitable as a way to get to the Pacific or cross the continent. A area just to the north that once was in part Navajo lands, the Bear Ears area, has one of the last places in the lower 48 to be explored by Americans. The Henry Mountains in Utah (in Navajo Dził Bizhiʼ Ádiní) were explored by Americans in 1872. The last wolf was killed in the Abajos in the 1930s. These are remote areas. There are no navigable rivers and no good way build roads or later to lay train tracks.When the Mexicans transferred the lands to the Americans in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. they did not in fact control the Navajo lands. There was no military or political or linguistic or religious control of the area. Legally, they probably didn’t really have the right to transfer the land. In any case, the area was not colonized by any Europeans to any great extent until after the Civil War.In 1864, the Americans fought a war with the Navajo. Most were interned in a camp for four years and many died. This is called The Long Walk. Perhaps half the population died of starvation and disease in the camp. At this point the Navajo lucked out. It also turned out that for some reason their culture was easy for some American leaders in the army and other parts of the government to sympathized with. The government plan had been to force them all to leave their land and move them to Oklahoma. While they were in the camp at Bosque Redondo there was a pretty big scandal. Funds were being misappropriated. Navajo were not being fed and dying. Disease was rampant. It was an area where crops would not grow.People who sympathized with the Navajo made this get to the national press and it became a scandal. It got into national news. The President already had a number of scandals. When the US tried to close the camps and move the Navajo, the important Navajo leaders told them they would rather die than leave their homeland. Not many Americans had much use for the Navajo lands. The leaders stuck to their position and more deaths wold have been bad politically. Many American people who were in contact with them admired their culture and argued for their case. At this point Navajo had an economy of corn and squash, and sheep herding, and weaving. They lived in small family settlements. It was not very different in some ways from many American farmers. A number of locally and nationally connected important people spoke for them.The result was that they were allowed to return to a portion of their traditional lands on June 18, 1868. Some who had escaped the War and interment came out of hiding. They started to rebuild their herds and fields. A cultural decision was made by Navajo to give up the raiding part of their masculine identity. As their culture also always valued corn (and pollen) and in the last two hundred years become to value herding. The cultural value of ritual and philosophical knowledge for men was also an existing role. There was clear way to be Navajo that no longer had raiding as part of the mix. This vision helped traditional society to recover in a way that some tribal nations could not.Navajo culture also has a trait that tends to assimilate and Navajo-ize many new ideas they come in contact with. Rather than letting new cultural practices hurt them, they make them Navajo. In the huge culture clash with Spanish and Anglo culture this has helped them retain self identity. Almost everywhere in the world where this sense of culture is damaged, populations decrease and have problems. Sheep and fry bread and weaving and silver jewelry and horses and velvet skirts and pickups and cowboy hats and rodeos and pageants much more all came from other cultures. Now they are very Navajo.After returning to their land in 1868 they were largely left alone until the 1930s and their population grew from then on. Their culture continued to win over people who were supposed to supervise them or “Americanize” them. Their culture and philosophy has a fairly unique emphasis on balance, harmony and beauty. Because of this appeal to non Navajos who advocated for them, and because of vibrant Navajo leaders, their land base was expanded 13 times between 1868 and 1934. Here are some of the land gains:They only lost land in a checkerboard pattern in the eastern part. It was in 1887 the Navajo lost some land in the eastern New Mexico area. Powerful New Mexico political interests opposed having the land given to the Navajo in that area. Some areas were rescinded. The Dawes Act passed and land was allotted to some families there. The government said that land "left over" after all members had received allotments was to be considered "surplus". This was sold to non Navajo or given to state or BLM or other uses. Some places the subsurface and surface rights are owned by different entities. The allotment program continued until 1934. The eastern part is today called the “Checkerboard Rez”. Here are where the losses were. The pink is Navajo land.Here are today’s Navajo Nation lands. The area that is tan in the lower left is not Navajo land but the Hopi reservation. The Navajo Nations today is the size of Holland and Belgium combined or the states of Mass, Conn, VT, NH, and RI combined. The tribe continues to buy back land. The latest was 605.10 km2 in 2016.On the whole their land base grew. They did not suffer as much as most tribes from the Dawes act. The Act was largely a ruse to take Native land under the pretense that it would “help” Native people by making them part of the market economy and “Americanize” them. In most parts of their land Anglo settlers were not pushing to take their land. The one exception is the Mormons. They did try to push south and take Navajo land. And the succeeded a great deal in what is now Utah. But here again the Navajo were lucky. The Mormons were in a conflict with the US government during these times. Most Americans did not trust them. They had tried to create their own country. Polygamy and theocracy were seen as immoral. In large part US government agents push Mormon settles back out.With that expansion of the Navajo land base into a portion of their original territory came some natural resources. For the time from 1868 to about 1970 they could not negotiate royalties on their own. Many disgraceful deals were made by the US Secretary of the Interior and the BIA. What money that was collected as royalties was often mismanaged or lost. The courts finally recognized this and a portion of those funds that should have been in trust have been returned under the Cobell settlement in 2009. The tribe is using some of that money to buy back land. The tribe has over time been able to strike better deals for its coal, oil and natural gas. It now also has the largest contiguous irrigated farm in the US. Navajo Agricultural Products IndustryIn the 1930s they had a large setback when a misguided Depression are program forced them to reduce livestock herds. This impoverished the Navajo who had not been really not affected by the Depression because their economy was not as cash based as other places. Until 1940 the majority of Navajo lived there and most spoke only Navajo and practiced only Navajo culture.The result of being in a large remote area, that few Americans wanted to steal (except for Mormons), meant that they really did not have much contact with outside American culture until many men joined WWII. Even until 1970 many parts of the reservation had no paved roads and were incredibly remote. Having their culture and language and land base intact meant that the population could rebound at a normal rate.They also did not face the efforts to terminate tribes that happened in the 1950s. As their numbers grew they became a voting block as well. Native people had been refused the vote in New Mexico and Arizona. But court cases helped them gain the vote in 1948. In Utah, Native people have largely been frozen out of the political process until this year. In any case, politicians on both sides began to see advantage in courting the Native vote in these states. Even Barry Goldwater was a big supporter of the Navajo tribe when he was a Senator from 1952 to 1987. In New Mexico the Republican party hoped to court the Native vote and even got Nixon to return important tribal lands to the Taos, Hualapai, Havasupai.They were also lucky in that when they began to have more contact with the rest of American culture they also began to get healthcare. Having a bigger population helped with this too. It made sense to build healthcare infrastructure. So, as they had big families they did not have as high death rates. Today they have inpatient, emergency, outpatient, public health, and other services at four hospitals: Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility, Crownpoint Health Care Facility, Gallup Indian Medical Center, and Northern Navajo Medical Center (Shiprock, NM). There are a total of 222 hospital beds. The Kayenta Health Center in Kayenta, AZ began operating as an Alternative Rural Hospital in late 2017 by offering ten short stay nursing beds and ambulatory surgery. There are also has seven full-time health centers providing outpatient, community health, preventive health, and other services. There are also five part-time health stations. The IHS also has contracts and compacts with Tribal health corporations authorized by the Navajo Nation, These include Fort Defiance Indian Hospital/Tsehootsooi Medical Center, Winslow Indian Health Care Center, Inc., Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, Sage Memorial Hospital, and Utah Navajo Health System, Inc. As well as western medicine, traditional Navajo ritual medicine, which treats spiritual, social, philosophical, and mental health issues that have effects of physical health, is still widely practiced and followed.There is a problem with alcohol (and more recently drugs) on the Navajo lands. But, the tribe was so remote before the 1950s most places could not get alcohol very easily. The were lucky in that the issue hit them very late. Today the tribe is dry and it is illegal to sell alcohol. In many places it would be a two or three hour drive to get a beer. The rates of alcohol problems are going down and the drinking patterns are almost identical to white Anglo rural ranching populations in New Mexico and Arizona. This is different than newer urban American styles of drinking but it is not as intense a problem as some places.On the Navajo Nation they did have boarding schools. But because the population was bigger, many were on the Navajo reservation. This meant they were still near Navajo speakers. They did face laws and attitudes against Native languages and religions but the had a critical mass of a larger population in a very remote area. A number of people who came to be missionaries even left their religion, married Navajos and their kids are Navajo. Many federal agents like Navajo culture and did not really enforce restrictions as much. And most Navajo did not live in towns. They lived in remote hogans. In those places nobody was trying to control them. There were many trading post operators who ended up speaking Navajo and advocating for Navajos.The Navajo Nation did have to deal with forced foster care and forced adoption. But again, with a growing population, the effect was less. The biggest problem was the LDS church forcing such practices starting in 1947. That ended in the late 1980s. Who can adopt a Native child?After the Long Walk the Navajo population was about 8,000 to 11,000 people. Around 1908 they had grown to 29,000. Today there are 332,129 enrolled members in 2010. About 160,000 to 200,000 live on the reservation or right near it. The Navajo constitution says that to be and enrolled Navajo yo must have the equivalent of at least one grandparent (25%).The Navajo language is still spoken by about 60% of the population and one can hear it everywhere. Traditional religion is still practiced by at least 1/3 of the population. They now have full control of their government. The new religion (for the Navajo since the 30s) of Native American Church (NAC) is practiced by many as well.Navajo art and culture are alive and thriving. There is modern Navajo bands and music and art as well. They have a regular justice department but have also developed an alternative court system based on traditional values. They have radio and a newspaper. They run schools and have a tribal college, Dine College, which was the first tribal college in the country in 1968. They also have Navajo Technical University in 3 locations.Most other places and tribes this was not the case. Land was taken over and over. People were forced to places far away from traditional lands. In some cases peoples traditional economic base such as places focused on bison, was destroyed. People were forced off native lands and into boarding schools. Language was suppressed. With smaller populations it was harder to hold onto. Every where west of the Mississippi became full of European immigrants and the descendants of slaves. Tribes were terminated. People of a similar ethnic groups were separated. In other places many unrelated people were forced together. Religion and culture was suppressed. Christianity was imposed. Settlement patterns and social and family structures were disrupted. People had no economic or political power. They faced slavery in the early period until the mod 1700s. They were deported and sold as slaves in the Caribbean. They faced planned genocide in places like California. Places where people lived in compact towns, like the Mandan or the Haida suffered terribly from epidemics. In many places every time a tribe would start to get back on their feet the colonial powers would take more away or forced them to move again.If the Native people had not faced massive displacement, disruption of economies, genocide and epidemic and had been allow a normal population increase the US population today would have at least 130 million Native Americans. Even with conservative assumptions, Native Americans would account for around 35 percent of US population in today. The Navajo were lucky and post 1868 were largely left alone. This allowed their population to rebound as all other Native populations should have been able to as well.

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