Albert Laughter, a fifth generation Navajo medicine man, sits on the ground inside a towering white tepee...
The tepee sits on the grounds of a hospital for American military veterans...
While critics note that the Department of Veterans' Affairs has been slow to meet the challenge of this flood of emotionally injured troops, the problems of small budgets, overworked staff and inadequate understanding of how to treat the condition is compounded among Native Americans.
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