ABSTRACT
This chapter offers several stories about names that place the tensions between 19th-century identity narratives and those emerging in the 21st century in high relief, and, for the most part, let the consonance and incongruity among them do the work of creating a wider critical vision. The chapter explores two stories of the indigenous experience in 19th-century borderlands-first, the life story of two individuals writ large for the Caucasus, and second, that of the Connolly-Douglas family writ large across western Canada. It considers a third story at the more inclusive level of community. The chapter draws reader's mind's eye to the sweet grass of the high veld north of the Orange River in South Africa, where by 1800 a conglomerate community of refugee peoples would soon designate themselves as "Griqua". Like the mixed communities of the Caucasus and Canada, these too were the product of imperial intrusion.
