Putting the puzzle together

The state of Sami sports research in Finland

Abstract

Over the past few years, more systematic data has been collected
about Finnish Sámi sports, its organization practices, and especially
children’s and young people’s sports and leisure time in
northern Finland and the Sámi Homeland. With the data collection,
the Sámi people’s ways of playing sports or being physically
active have also become more visible in the Finnish sport policy.
This article examines how research overall and its different forms
and sports policy can support each other, and how research can be
used to show the status of minorities in sports policy.