Left: Daughter Vanessa with my first grandchild, Naomi.
Right: Daughter Leslie (baby in pic not hers, but in 1999 she had a baby boy)

Above: Beverly & daughter Annabelle
(who's photo can be seen at Gerber
Baby Food Boxes)

Above: Son Eddie with his wife Toni.
(Eddie is a Chef who just graduated from Saint
Augustines College in Culinary Arts)

Monique's Sergio at bat at the 
Chicago Indian Community Picnic


Top: 
Me with kids at the Chicago Children's Museum.
Bottom: 
Me performing with the band at Truman College
 
 
 

Personal Info
Ed Two-Rivers is a talented poet, playwright, 
and performer. He has published a number of 
volumes of poetry. His first collection, "A Dozen
Cold Ones", was nominated for the Kawanzaa 
Award. Mr.Two-Rivers has also been committed 
to attaining justice and equal rights for Native 
Americans. Over the years he has performed at 
events that benefited Leonard Peltier, AIDS 
victims, hunger, homelessness, battered women,
world peace, environmental issues, opposition to 
Proposition 187, as well as at events that took 
a stand against the death penalty and gang 
violence. 
His dedication to these causes brought recog-
nition as a winner of the Iron-Eyes Cody Award
for Peace. Mr. Two-Rivers is also a produced 
playwright and the founding Artistic Director 
of The Red Path Theater Company (Illinois' only
Native American theatre company). 
(text copied from Eddie's homepage)

I am as old as the hills...as young as the morning 
breeze. I was born in 1945 in a small town in 
northwestern Ontario to a woman named 
Kee-Way-Goon-A-Beak. I have many, many 
children.  My eldest is in her thirties. My 
youngest almost 2 years old. An enrolled 
member of the Seine River band of Ojibwa 
Indians from Canada. Also known as Anishanobae
people. The reserve is located in Northwestern, 
Ontario.  Currently reside in Chicago with 
Beverly Moeser the beautiful and talented 
filmmaker, she is half German and Mernominee 
Indian. We have three small children...Michael, 
Quentin and Annabelle Rose.

Beverly was born in 1960 in Chicago. Her Mother
Annabelle is a Menominee Indian from Wisconsin
and her father Eugene is of German American 
decent. With a degree from Columbia College 
Beverly is a noted film-maker and is coordinator
of the First Nation’s Film and Video Festival 
now in its seventh year. She is also Executive 
Director of the Institute for Native American 
Development (INAD) and is a recognized leader 
in her community. As a mother of three childreen 
and a fourth on the way she is a busy woman. 
I credit her with motivating me to go after that 
dream I have always had ….”Hell, without her, I’d 
still be out there on the streets wandering 
aimlessly. She came into my life and got me 
focused. The rest is now history.”

Profession: By trade...a journeyman machinist but 
the industry is changing too rapidly. I now write 
full time (Published  a collection of poetry, 
entitled "A DOZEN COLD ONES" and became 
quite infamous as a performer)  and now I teach 
theater to young gang-bangers at Truman College 
where I am Founding Artistic Director of Red 
Path Theater Company. Have worked in sales ...
construction ...acting ... and as a performance 
artist, a community organizer and union represen-
tative. Currently work by going into schools to 
flirt with the teachers and give talks to students
... elementary to college.

Some additional info on yourself: I have written
a number of plays which have been produced in 
the Chicago area. Just finished the first and 
second draft of a movie entitled RED REQUIEM...
political turmoil on city streets, which draws upon
my experience with AIM and an intimate know-
ledge of the American Indian Community in 
Chicago. Am a life long member of  AIM. 
Other info...I have a garden...a cat and am 
currently looking for the right dog...for my 
smaller kids.

Hobbies: Gardening, occassional bird watching. 
I live near a bird sanctuary and sometimes study
the migration habits of birds. I used to hunt but
now only use a camera. I have no need to hunt. 
I like to do art on old chairs that I find in alleys. 
Just finished three of them recently. I enjoy 
travelling. Canoing!
I was raised in the bush and my toys were canoes
and boats...I fish on occassions but not much.

NOTE:   My book Survivor's Medicine published 
by the University of Oklahoma Press in October 
1998 won the 1999 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD 
given by the BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION.
I am very proud of that.