As part of an interdisciplinary and international collaborative project on the Austrian-German-Mexican avant-garde artist Wolfgang Paalen (1905-59) and his collection of Indigenous belongings, we will develop the practical-strategic framework for a new, Indigenous storywork-based, decolonial approach to digitally archiving, editing, and critically analyzing primary sources in European Cultural Studies. Our relational method of decentering Paalen and recentering Indigenous knowledges will also inform our collaborative DH approach with the aim to break down and redesign the hierarchical, colonial structures embedded in current TEI text digitization technologies, whether in personography or place-mapping technology. Supported by a UBC DiSi grant our first step is to establish a cloud-based file system catalogue for already digitized archive material, so that it can be shared with Indigenous communities and collaborators when working towards a global online Paalen Archive and the first edition of Paalen's unpublished literary exile writings.