Archival record · Document / PDF
Hayter Reed memorandum on the future management of First Nations, 1885
This reprinted memorandum records Reed's proposed measures after the 1885 Resistance, including restrictions on leaving reserves, leadership, annuities and livelihoods. Dewdney's annotations appear alongside the proposals, showing the administrative dialogue.
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- Publisher / custodian
- Hayter Reed with Edgar Dewdney annotations; reprinted in Native Studies Review; University of Saskatchewan I-Portal
- Source date
- July 1885 memorandum; Native Studies Review 2(2), 1986, pp.127–130
- Source type
- Archival record
- Format
- Document / PDF
- Regions
- Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba
- Peoples / communities
- First Nations targeted by the memorandum, Métis targeted by the memorandum
- Treaties
- Treaty 4, Treaty 6
Read with context
Reprint of a colonial administrative record, not the original manuscript or a neutral account of communities. Exact day is not asserted: catalogue metadata says July 20, while document OCR and other citations differ. The scan requires visual date review before exact-day publication. Open access does not grant a reuse licence.
Questions to investigate
- Read item 7 and the adjacent annotation: what did the officials propose?
- Compare these proposals with commitments in Treaty 6.
- Distinguish a proposed administrative policy from an enacted law.
Access and reuse
- Access
- link-only
- Rights / reuse
- External link only in this collection. No reuse permission is granted by this record; check publisher terms before copying or hosting source material. Publisher rights information ↗
- Record checked
- 2026-09-30
Web tool could not fetch PDF; direct I-Portal fetch returned HTTP 200, application/pdf, 921,084 bytes. Text extraction confirmed 4-page journal reprint, item 7 reserve-pass proposal, annotations and archival reference PAC RG10, volume 3710, file 19,550-3. I-Portal record 33613 confirms primary-source/open-access classification.
Copy-ready citation
Hayter Reed with Edgar Dewdney annotations; reprinted in Native Studies Review; University of Saskatchewan I-Portal. Hayter Reed memorandum on the future management of First Nations, 1885. July 1885 memorandum; Native Studies Review 2(2), 1986, pp.127–130. https://iportal.usask.ca/docs/Native_studies_review/v2/issue2/pp127-130.pdf. Record checked 2026-09-30.
Saskatchewan curriculum
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Suggested connection · teacher review
HC10
Investigate opportunities and challenges faced by First Nations and the Government of Canada in relation to governance issues.
Examine a federal official’s 1885 proposal and comments as evidence of colonial administrative policy. A proposal and its wording alone do not establish where, when or how a pass practice was enforced.
Candidate indicator: 1: Examine the impact of federal, provincial, and municipal government policies on the fulfillment of Treaties.
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