Eli Baxter
Eli Baxter is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards for his memoir Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth.
Baxter, an Anishinaabe member of the Marten Falls First Nation and a survivor of the Canadian [Indian residential school system], he has taught indigenous language and culture at both the elementary school and university levels, most notably at the University of Western Ontario.