who left Canada at 16 and settled in Chicago's then rough-and-tumble Uptown neighborhood, took up writing while behind bars for robbery.He went on to win a national award for short stories, start a Native American theater group, write plays, a newspaper column and poems that he read in dramatic fashion at poetry slams in Chicago and across the country.
Mr. Two-Rivers, 63, whose given name was Edmund D. Broeffle, died of complications from lung cancer Sunday, Dec. 28, at his home in Green Bay, said his daughter Vanessa Broeffle. He left Chicago for Green Bay in 2002.
from Chicago Tribune: E. Donald Two-Rivers 1945-2008: Ojibwa poet, playwright
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