This article presents and analyzes a historical narrative recorded in 1972 in Siona, a Western Tukano language, to examine the relationship between individual and collective memory and to contribute to the revitalization of narrative tradition. Native versions of the contact with Spanish invaders and the appropriate discourse to reveal identity are the two themes that make up the background of this article, which focuses on a narrative that reviews conflict, discourse and identity in Siona oral history. I have previously shown that Siona natives of the Colombian Amazon offer an alternative vision to the historical narratives about the violent events that occurred after contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century. His meta-narrative of contact reconstructs past events in the context of a broader cosmological scheme that gives his shamans the key role in defense against invaders. The narrative analyzed in this paper focuses on modes of discourse and narrative strategies, such as the cited discourse and the dialogic conversation, which mark conflicts between the Siona and Spanish invaders. It highlights previously ignored aspects of conflict within language and discursive strategies and their place in the construction of past and present identities. The narrative examined here reveals how Siona mark the unfolding of their history and identity through discourse and the correct way of speaking.