[2] He won a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1901 for his Girls in a Poppy Field (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto).

[2] In 1905, Morris held a solo show in Ottawa featuring portraits of Plains chiefs that he painted from photographs.

In 1906 he was invited to accompany the government expedition headed by Duncan Campbell Scott to the James Bay district to negotiate Treaty no.

[4] In 1909, he had a major exhibition of 55 Indian paintings and artifacts in Toronto at the Canadian Art Club.

[5] In a detailed will,[6] he bequeathed his paintings to the Ontario College of Art to be sold to fund a scholarship, and his collection of objects related to aboriginal life and history and historical Canadian furniture to the Royal Ontario Museum.

In 1984, Geoffrey Simmins and Michael Parke-Taylor curated Edmund Morris, "Kyaiyii", 1871–1913, a major retrospective exhibition for the MacKenzie Art Gallery Regina.