Municipal and Board Politics
Steen began his political career serving on local community boards, serving a number of posts through the 1970s and 80s. He first joined the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and trappers Committee in 1973 and served as a regular board member and chairman of the board for various periods until 1989. In 1974 he was chairman of the NWT Game Council.
Steen was appointed in 1975 to the Federal Fisheries and Oceans Advisory Committee on Whales and Whaling serving until 1977. He became Vice President of the Inuit Taparitsat of Canada in 1976 and served that post until 1978. The pinnacle of Steen's municipal career came when he was elected mayor of Tuktoyaktuk for a year in 1980. Four years later be became a board member of the Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation. His last board posting was as Chief of the Inuvialuit Land Administration Committee for the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation from 1986 until 1989.
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