Measures and metrics of racial disparities in health and social inequality data—despite their claims to inclusion or eventual repair—often retrench and naturalize an historical figure of a damaged, deficient, or vanished “Indian:” a figurative product of US colonialism. This talk will focus on early 20th century case files and modern archives as technologies and techniques of occupation, and their imbrication in the lives of Haudenosaunee people then as today. Delving into the archives of the Thomas Indian School (1855-1957) near Gowanda, NY, I find that the efforts of TIS administrators to separate and isolate children from broad kinship systems relied on anti-Indigenous practices of measurement and containment. I take strawberries I found as archival data—which sits in a central position in Haudenosaunee worlds as relation and as medicine—as a guide in the school’s archives and a medium through which Native futures have been maintained despite the abuses of the school. Historically grounding the use and limits of data, I show how practices of data-making are continuously refracted through US colonial politics of recognition. Engaging practices of repair, I suggest that the ethical demands of US colonial redress—to restore and restory Indigenous relations to land and life—must reckon and refuse measures and metrics that underlie current calls for equity and inclusion.