After Politics
After his defeat from the territorial assembly, Steen was diagnosed with bone cancer in May 2006. Steen sought out treatment at three different medical facilities in the Northwest Territories, the Rosie Ovayulak Health Centre in Tuktoyuktuk. Inuvik Regional Hospital and Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife. He died eight months later from the disease on February 3, 2007.
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