The concept of the contact zone has been around for some time and deserves reconsideration. As a gesture toward this reevaluation and as an exploration of indigenous rhetoric, the author takes up Felipe Guaman Poma's "El primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno" (The First New Chronicle and Good Government), the text that Mary Louise Pratt credits as a model for her initial formulation of the idea. Guaman Poma deserves attention because relatively little has been said of him in relation to composition studies, despite the popularity of Pratt's concept. This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric's origin story based on a reading of Guaman Poma's "First New Chronicle and Good Government." The author reads this writer's argument for indigenous ability and reshaping of space through picture, map, and text as a multimodal effort that invites attention to classroom rhetorical power dynamics and standards. (Contains 2 figures and 7 notes.)