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History requires order. Order requires rhetoric. Rhetoric requires history. These anadiploses of history, order, and rhetoric are manifest in the procedural institution of everyday practices. In this essay, I argue that everyday creation of coloniality can be learned from the rhetorical practices of language that reify and legitimatize the institutionalized order assumed over time. By reading the metahistorical project of Franciscan friars in the 16th century, rhetoric can reimagine tools of language to create a metahistorical project for decolonization.