William Burroughs giving thanks for the goods that will be consumed on Thanksgiving day:  "Thank you for conspiracies and hypocrisies, thank you for a world where it is forbidden to talk, thank you for the turkey destined to be digested by American stomachs, thank you for a blessed nation".

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.