ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the theme of PEWS conference panel, "Violence, the Sacred, and the Global System". It begins to greet readers in two indigenous languages. One is Sahaptin and other is Kumeyaay. It begins this way to respect an indigenous understanding of identity. A sense of identity that can protect people from doing these damaging things is useful as they struggle with the many problems that they face in the world system today. The chapter focuses on author's homeland and traditional culture because he worked during the school year at the University of San Diego (USD), he needs to honor that he spend much of his time on Kumeyaay homeland. The chapter teaches readers how to use an indigenous conception of identity to avoid damaging ourselves, each other, and the Earth. Using historical and contemporary Kumeyaay and Yakama cultural examples, chapter argues that local action is necessary to achieve a more socially just political economy of the world system.
