{"id":65604,"date":"2017-11-24T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=65604"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T01:19:03","slug":"stronger-together-documentary-tribute-to-stronghold-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/stronger-together-documentary-tribute-to-stronghold-society\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stronger Together&#8221; Documentary Tribute To Stronghold Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In honor of Native American Heritage day, please check out &#8220;STRONGER TOGETHER&#8221;,\u00a0directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soesnphoto.com\/\">Scott Soens<\/a> and produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/drinkswitchel.com\/\">Up Mountain Switchel<\/a> co-founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elykey\/\">Ely Key.<\/a>\u00a0This inspirational short film documents the work <a href=\"http:\/\/strongholdsociety.org\/\">Stronghold Society<\/a> does building skate parks, cultivating leadership development, and creating art programs on Native American reservations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cMV16Ev9qtg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Up Mountain Switchel is rooted in honoring heritage and its partnership with the Stronghold Society brings this mission to life, sharing the power of indigenous knowledge to inspire strength of mind, body, and spirit. Your purchase of Up Mountain Switchel products helps fund critical Stronghold Society programs in Native American communities, building leaders of tomorrow and creating real impact.<\/p>\n<p>Donate to the Stronghold Society at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/strongholdsociety.org\/\">http:\/\/strongholdsociety.org\/ <\/a>\u00a0and become part of its mission to inspire confidence, creativity, hope, and ambition for the youth of Native communities and non-Native communities through empowerment, arts programs, skateboarding and athletic activities while encouraging youth to take action to live a healthy life in mind, body, and spirit; this is our LIVE LIFE CALL TO ACTION CAMPAIGN. Stronghold Society\u2019s goals are to promote healthy way of life outlooks for youth of all races through skateboarding and\u00a0athletic activities or events, to create and sustain skateparks in Native American communities through resources collected and\/or developed by Stronghold Society and to develop ongoing arts programs and media campaigns to empower our youth to live life.<\/p>\n<p>Show support by grabbing a Wounded Knee Skateboard at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woundedkneeskateboards.net\/\">http:\/\/www.woundedkneeskateboards.net\/\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 where Jim Murphy uses profits from boards sales to give skateboards to the youth on the Native American Reservations. As Murph says, &#8220;Back in 1998, Andy Kessler and I were trying to come up with a name for a hardcore skate company, and Andy said, \u201dWhat about Wounded Knee?\u201d We both realized that would be heavy, and we also felt that this would be a great opportunity to educate people about true Native history through our skateboard graphics. We had a vision of giving back to the Lakota nation with a series of skateparks on the Pine Ridge Reservation for the Lakota youth, in memory of those who died in the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890. We knew this could enliven a cultural youth movement on the rez through the arts, film, photography and music that got us both swept into skateboarding in the 1970s. Now this vision is coming true. In 2012, we built our first concrete Wounded Knee Four Directions Skatepark in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, with financial support from Jeff Ament and Pearl Jam, the Tony Hawk Foundation and Steve Van Doren of Vans, and built by Grindline Skateparks. In 2015, Wounded Knee Skateboards and the Stronghold Society, built a second skatepark in Manderson, South Dakota, and, with your help, hope to build many more. Although Andy Kessler has gone to the next level, his spirit and vision still lives in this project and all future projects involving the Wounded Knee Four Directions Skatepark Program, which is a program of The Stronghold Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The profits from board sales will help us get boards to kids so they can skate these parks on the rez, and also to support contests and art projects that will surround the skatepark scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out Up Mountain Switchel,\u00a0a sustainable drink company making an American Heritage Beverage, which is made of three key ingredients: fresh ginger, raw organic apple cider vinegar, Berkshire mountain water and a touch of pure grade A sweet Vermont maple syrup.\u00a0Ginger is one of the most widely used medicinal roots in the world. Its main active component, curcumin, is an anti-inflammatory used to fight cancer. Apple Cider Vinegar alkalizes the body, fights obesity and diabetes, and is used widely to cure almost any ailment you can think of. Maple Syrup is mineral rich, all natural, and has tons of calcium. Up Mountain Switchel, an organic, vegan, and gluten free thirst-quenching elixir, founded by Ely Key and Garrett Riffle, is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drinkswitchel.com\/\">www.drinkswitchel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Up Mountain Switchel at these fine retailers:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NEW YORK:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods Markets (in 33 Northeast stores in CT, NJ &amp; NY)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/\">http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Mixtape Shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themixtapeshop.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\">https:\/\/themixtapeshop.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Essen Foods-\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essenfood.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.essenfood.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blue Hill Restaurant-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluehillfarm.com\/dine\/new-york\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.bluehillfarm.com\/dine\/new-york<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Agern Restaurant Deli in Grand Central-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/agernrestaurant.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/agernrestaurant.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Greene Grape (Brooklyn, NY)\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenegrape.com\/\">http:\/\/www.greenegrape.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Provisions Natural Food (Sag Harbor, NY)\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.provisionsnaturalfoods.com\/\">http:\/\/www.provisionsnaturalfoods.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Frame (Manhattan)\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafeframe.com\/\">https:\/\/www.cafeframe.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Integral Yoga (Manhattan)\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.integralyoganaturalfoods.com\/\">http:\/\/www.integralyoganaturalfoods.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Mekelburgs &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mekelburgs.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\">https:\/\/www.mekelburgs.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>VERMONT:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Healthy Living- <a href=\"https:\/\/healthylivingmarket.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/healthylivingmarket.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Woodstock Farmers Markets- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstockfarmersmarket.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.woodstockfarmersmarket.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Black Line Tavern at Magic Mountain : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicmtn.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/www.magicmtn.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>CALIFORNIA:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Lassen&#8217;s &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lassens.com\/locations\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.lassens.com\/locations\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Gelson&#8217;s &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gelsons.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/gelsons.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Erewhon-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.erewhonmarket.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.erewhonmarket.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Savoy Cafe and Santa Barbara &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesavoycafe.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/thesavoycafe.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Rainbow Bridge in Ojai-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowbridgeojai.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/rainbowbridgeojai.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Harvest cafe in Ventura-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvestcafeventura.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.harvestcafeventura.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lazy Acres (Santa Barbara)\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lazyacres.com\/\">http:\/\/lazyacres.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>MICHIGAN RETAILERS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Busch&#8217;s Fresh Food Market &#8211; 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