Building on studies of performance and the politics of indigeneity, indigenous activism, and indigenous modernity in Latin America, this article analyzes interdiscursive forms of narrative, metalinguistic interviews, and staged performances of ritual communication among the Napo Kichwa of Amazonian Ecuador. It argues that Napo Kichwa discourse is defined by pluralism, or the coexistence and objectification of contrasting languages, voices, and related bodies of knowledge. This pluralism is explicitly elaborated in forms of ritual activism—a genre of recontextualized and politically oriented ritual speech. Expanding the prevailing ethnographic picture of rural Amazonian Kichwa discourse and cosmology, I view the Napo Kichwa as comprising heterogeneous rural and urban communities of practice, variably engaged with multiple languages and knowledges. The article suggests that discursive pluralism is a characteristic of indigenous modernity more generally, where the objectification of alterity and a demonstration of mastery of dominant ways of knowing are key agentive strategies for engaging with sociopolitical change. [Amazonia, Ecuador, identity, indigenous people, linguistics]