Early Life
Steen was born in 1941 in Aklavik in the Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories. He lived his whole life in northern Canada. Steen was educated at a local residential school in his hometown of Aklavik for seven years. He went to post secondary education at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. At the vocational school Steen attained his journey man certificate as a heavy equipment operator.
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