As early as 1948, Frantz Fanon (Algeria) and Mehdi Ben Barka (Morocco) articulated remedies such as acknowledgment, financial reparations, and repatriation of artifacts and national archives removed from colonies to colonizer states. In Frantz Fanon’s classic work, The Wretched of the Earth (p. 228), he argues for a “just reparation” for the crimes of colonialism, which, Fanon insisted, should be marked by a “double realization”: on the one hand the colonized must articulate that reparations are their rightful and just due; and on the other hand, colonizing capitalist powers must acknowledge the requirement to pay the colonized. Thus, while independence and self-determination are defined as mere moral forms of reparative justice, Fanon considers centuries of colonialism and its attendant despoliation of land, people, and resources, compelling and justifiable claims for financial indemnification. It is the case that since independence from France in 1962, Algeria never requested financial reparations from France according to available avenues through which one state may raise claims against another state. However, when France attempted to pass its 2005 law stating that colonialism’s positive features and its civilizing mission must be taught in the French secondary school system, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika swiftly demanded an official state apology -- but not reparations -- from the French government for the “crimes of colonialism.” In addition, Algeria has never ceased requesting the return to Algeria of French colonial archives on Algeria. This paper considers seemingly minor or subsidiary injustices and demands for non-monetary reparations linked to what has been called the “right to the archive.” By discussing France's refusal until 2007 to allow access to French colonial archives, two case studies are highlighted: 1) Algerians seeking information and military maps to remedy placement of millions of landmines (Morice and Challe lines) and 2) archival information about atomic test explosions conducted in Algeria in the 1950s and pre-1962 period to match against high cancer rates among dwellers of the Algerian Sahel region. Colonizer administrations in the post-independence era appropriated the formerly colonized archives and shipped them from colony to metropole, with the result that the archival pasts and histories of newly independent states reside elsewhere. Strengthening Algerian claims are facts about provenance and pertinence, meaning that though the French created the documents, they did so in Algeria (provenance), and they are about Algeria and Algerians (pertinence) in strikingly dramatic and life threatening ways.