Decolonising trails: Tavis Smith, Patrick Lucas, Tom Eustache, Thomas Schoen, ‘Reflections on trails, mountain biking, and Indigenous-settler relations in British Columbia: Ride, (re)connect, and (re)build’, in Jim Cherrington (ed.), Mountain Biking, Culture and Society, Routledge, 2024
30Dec23
Abstract: The Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program (IYMBP) is a non-profit society with the mandate to bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, community members, and youth together to build mountain bike trails and foster reconciliation through the sport of mountain biking. In this chapter, we reflect on some activities of the IYMBP and in particular, its work with the Simpcw First Nation. The chapter proceeds in three parts: first, we lay out a rationale and theoretical underpinning for the chapter; second, the leaders of the IYMBP craft a narrative recount of their own perspective on the Allies Festival; third, and finally, we draw on some aspects of postcolonial thought to think through the implications of those reflections.
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