ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a robust analysis and discussion of the empirical findings from the three previous chapters Indigenous sport and nation-building is analyzed by the application of the theoretical concepts of community and convention. Given the outlook of this book, criticizing the established nation state-sport nexus, it discusses whether a new convention should be developed: that of the sport-nation nexus, and excluding the state. The chapter discusses whether the dichotomous understanding of nation can be replaced by a multinational understanding. This argument is further advanced through community constructs referring to similarity and belonging, suggesting that in Sápmi in Norway, it is reductionist to speak about Sámi versus Norwegian as mutually exclusive entities. It is also reductionist to speak of a concrete local community versus an imagined national community because they are mutually dependent. And sport contributes to build both.
