ABSTRACT
While Chapter 4 considered core Indigenous area, this chapter focuses on areas outside the core as the unit for analysis. If the former and this chapter are seen together, it is identified that Indigenous sport works for nation-building in slightly different ways within and across different areas. This chapter focuses on the linguistic and geographical considerations related to Sápmi; it reveals how the county of Finnmark is conventionally understood – especially seen from the outside – as equal to the core Sámi area and that such a reductionism reproduces stereotypical understandings. The main definition criterion for this understanding seems to be the language that is still often in everyday use in core areas and less so outside core areas (due to harsher assimilation legacies). This, in turn, complicates the understanding of Sápmi because the outcome of the analysis depends on the point of departure and what is considered as a whole unit.
