ABSTRACT
This chapter answers the research questions. It is proposed that sport contributes to nation-building via sport clubs in local neighbourhoods, which work as both physical activity providers and as community associations with a place identity focus that may include an Indigenous identity focus. The relationship between the concrete local community and the imagined national community is omnipresent but simultaneously nuanced and shaped by former colonization. The chapter elaborates on how the nuances seem to create a pattern indicating the relationship is somewhat more communal in core Indigenous areas and more assimilative outside core Indigenous areas. It suggests that it is likely that the development of the Indigenous community will follow a trajectory informed by past and present, mainly reproducing but slightly changing the patterns of different Indigenous areas. This contribution to sport sociology and the study of Indigenous sport and nation-building can inform scholars and decision-makers alike.
