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.
