This chapter traces instances of the intimate politics of conquest and empire in the work of writer and residential school survivor from British Columbia, Shirley Sterling’s young adult novel My Name Is Seepeetza (1992). It argues that taking children like Seepeetza away from Indigenous communities and placing them in distant boarding and residential schools was not only an assault on indigenous communities, but also on Indigenous intimacy. It demonstrates that spaces of intimacy and kinship are central to residential school narratives, which reconstruct intimacy through a constant remembering and juxtaposition of the traumatic present with a joyous past and a resilient future. As a fictionalized residential school narrative—told through the voice of a twelve-year-old female survivor—My Name Is Seepeetza reveals both spaces and moments of intimacy, as well as power, in residential schools built to serve the empire throughout North America.