Caylie Gnyra got the idea for Little Cree Books in 2009, while sitting in a Native Studies classroom at the University of Alberta. For the next four years, she struggled to find time to work on the project in between the various other commitments in her life, which included a master’s degree in museum science and an internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Earlier this year, however, she decided that a few hours a week was never going to be good enough. So Gnyra gave notice at her day job as a technical writer — after having already wrapped up a nine-year stint in academia — and is now getting ready to commit herself to Little Cree Books full time.

Her inspiration came from an unlikely place: a column in the satirical newspaper The Onion. Its headline was Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Evenings And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life. The column was aimed squarely at guilty creative types, and it was the push that Gnyra needed.

See: Edmonton Journal

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