This article shows the political articulation of the Communes and Indigenous Communities formed as People Kitu Kara in the city of Quito. They examine their identitarian budgets as a non-migrant community and explain the organisational mechanisms that have led to the re-discovery of their ancestral systems of government and the ownership of constitutional normative elements, such as community democracy. The ethnographic approach explains the ontological relationships between these ancestral systems and the municipality, highlighting the regulatory contradictions between the 2008 Ecuadorian constitution and the continued existence of previous legal systems.