terra (in)cognita focuses on fragments of histories, of pre-contact, contact, and settlement of the Kelowna area though the accounts of several nSyilxcen (Okanagan) speakers. It traces connections and correlations between the periods of extermination/disintegration, assimilation, and marginalization to their present day and context of being First Nations.

"I was going to be an anthropologist, I was going to be a journalist. I was going to be a writer, an archaeologist, a filmmaker, a biochemist, a pharmacist. I was never going to be a missionary or a forest ranger, but nevertheless my father sent me off to Papua, New Guinea with the missionaries".