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Tribes & Marijuana Legalization – Marty Two Bulls

Posted By Marty Two Bulls July 30th, 2018 Last Updated on: July 30th, 2018

Tribes & Marijuana Legalization – Marty Two Bulls

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About Marty Two Bulls

Marty Two Bulls Sr. is an Oglala Lakota originally from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He spent his childhood in Rapid City, South Dakota and was graduated from Rapid City’s Central High School in 1981. He attended college in Denver at the Colorado Institute of Art, which gave him the technical skills to land a job in his hometown with the local television station, a NBC affiliate, as an assistant to the art director. It was at his high school newspaper (the Pine Needle) that Two Bulls first started drawing editorial cartoons. His ‘editoons’ started out as a hobby but within a few years the hobby turned into a career.

Two Bulls began as a journalist in weekly newspapers and then moved on to dailies. He accepted a position the Rapid City Journal as graphics editor and he served on the editorial board for seven years. Two Bulls then moved on to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader as graphics editor for six more years. He eventually left newspapers and returned to college to finish his BFA degree, freelance as a cartoonist, and pursue a fine art career. He has drawn editorial cartoons for the Indian Country Today Media Network since 2001, an archive of his work can be found at: https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/category/news/cartoons

His work also appears in the newspapers; Indian Country Today (Martin, SD), Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Times (New Town, ND), Cherokee One Feather (Cherokee, NC), Sincangu Scribe (Rosebud SD) and News from Indian Country (Hayward, WI).

His work focuses on issues of political interest to Native peoples, a vital niche market. “Native Americans have been historically persecuted and marginalized by the dominant culture, which has reduced them to a minority in their own lands. Said Two Bulls “I create my cartoons for my people and if non-Natives are touched by the work, then all the better”. It is important to him that the message of the editorial is made known to all peoples.

Marty currently works as a senior freelance artist, college art professor, and graphic designer. He enjoys teaching, painting, and sculpting. His website is m2bulls.com

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Don’t be so anxious to embrace the legalization of a drug that occupies the lives of millions. (CBD only I get but not pot w/THC)
For better or worse, there are things to be watchful of in the pursuit of this field (marijuana). I get that tribes have been deprived of most opportunities to have businesses and are put through insane rigors (BS) to get permits but bringing more drugs (THC) onto reservations is another sticky ball of wax. It already screws up many white and black communities (i’ve Seen it, lived it). But the point is well made that the gov’t continues to screw around with the rights and opportunities for natives on their reservations.
Peace.

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Dianne Davidson

What are the benefits of legalization for the tribes

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Jonell Adams

Hmmmmm….interesting. What are the odds? Each tribe regulates themselves with laws…the biggest Marijuana plant in Arizona employs hundreds of people. Jobs for us? Or not?

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