Sweetgrass and Soul Work: A Companion Journal for Reflection and Renewal

by Marique Moss

Overview

A Companion Journal for Reflection and Renewal

This is a self guided journal created to walk alongside Sweetgrass and Soul Food: A Memoir in Poems It invites you to slow down, breathe deeper, and come back to yourself.

Moving through four stages — Remember, Reclaim, Restore, and Rise — this journal offers space to reflect, space to grow, and space to just be. You will find thoughtful prompts, breathwork, grounding practices, and moments of stillness that honor your own pace and your own process.

There are no rules here. No perfect way to begin. Just pages waiting to hold your truth.

Created by Marique B Moss, an Afro Indigenous writer, educator, and enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, Sweetgrass and Soul Work is rooted in cultural healing, ancestral memory, and the belief that we carry medicine within us.

This is your space.
Take what you need. Leave what you do not.
Come back as often as you like.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798319607911
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/21/2025
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Marique B. Moss is an Afro Indigenous poet, educator, legal scholar, and cultural strategist. She is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation and carries the traditional name Woman in the Water (Mirígua Míash). Her work is rooted in sovereignty, survival, and self reclamation, bridging the personal and political with clarity, force, and care.

With academic training in Native American Studies and Indigenous Peoples Law, Marique brings a multidisciplinary approach to her writing and teaching. She is the co founder and CEO of Mashkiki Studios, where she leads culturally grounded workshops in plant medicine, traditional arts, and decolonial storytelling. Her practice lives at the intersections of Black and Indigenous liberation, education reform, and community healing.

She has written on issues including Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Indian Child Welfare Act, American Indian education, and Black liberation. Her voice has been called upon across the country, where she has served as a featured panelist and invited speaker at national conferences, summits, and community forums. Through every platform, she brings sharp insight and lived experience to the front lines of justice, identity, and cultural preservation.

Marique lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she writes, teaches, builds, and refuses to water herself down. Her words are medicine. Her presence is power. And her story is still unfolding