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Some will not like it but others will. That is just the way of the world."
• Two Bulls grew up in Rapid City but said he has a strong connection to the Red Shirt community on Pine Ridge. The Two Bulls clan comes from that area and his father still lives there. From a young age Two Bulls was surrounded by artists -- one uncle was a gallery painter and another was a graphic designer.
• It was at Central High School in Rapid City that Two Bulls started drawing editorial cartoons for the school newspaper. He went on to attend the Art Institute of Colorado before returning to South Dakota and working for television stations and newspapers across the state as a graphic designer and cartoonist. He began his freelance cartoon career while going back to school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
• For the past 11 years, Two Bulls, who is married with three grown children, has been completing 52 cartoons a year, which can be a challenge, he said. The Society of Professional Journalists last year honored Two Bulls with a Sigma Delta Chi award.
• The most time-consuming part of each cartoon is researching an idea. Luckily, Two Bulls said, he was bitten by the news bug at an early age and reads everything from The New York Times to local newspapers for inspiration.
• "I'm constantly checking articles and looking -- whatever strikes me as funny," he said. "I like to do ironic stuff. And I do it from my perspective. I'm Native American, so I do it from my point of view and my humor."
• It's that humor that helps Native people get through some of their troubles, he said.
• "We're the poorest in the nation but we can still joke about it," he said.
• As for offending people, Two Bulls figures that's just part of the profession.
• "If you don't get people mad you're not doing your job," he said, laughing.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City couple has claimed a $2 million Powerball prize and plans to use the money to pay bills.
• Barb and Jim Powers said they are still in shock about winning the money in the June 5 drawing. The odds of winning $2 million playing Powerball are one in about 5.2 million.
• Barb Powers bought the winning ticket at Big D Oil on June 1. She also purchased an option for $1 that doubled the $1 million prize she won when the ticket matched all five white ball numbers but missed the Powerball.

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