This council was a follow-up to the council held at Carlton earlier that summer. Beardy called Carlton signatories to Duck Lake and drew up eight promises that had not been fulfilled in treaty making.
Speech given by Beardy to meeting at Duck Lake: "Yes, I am willing to speak. Since the leaves have begun to come it is why I have been walking, walking, trying to make myself understood. It is why I have come to Duck Lake. To show you why I have been so anxious, it is because I have been trying to seize the promises which they made to me, I have been grasping but I cannot send them. What they have promised me straightway I have not yet seen the half of it. We have all been deceived in the same way. It is the cause of our meeting at Duck Lake. They offered me a spot as a reserve. As I see that they are not going to be honest I am afraid to take a reserve. They have given me to choose between several small reserves but I feel sad to abandon the liberty of my own land when they come to me and offer me small plots to stay there and in return not to get half of what they have promised me. When will you have a big meeting. It has come to me as through the bushes that you are not yet all united, take time and become united, and I will speak. The Government sent to us those who think themselves men. They bring everything crooked. They take our lands, they sell hem and they buy themselves fine clothes. Then they clap their hands on their hips and call themselves men. They are not men. They have no honesty. They are an unsightly beast. Their faces are twisted from the appearance of honest men." - July 31, 1884 Duck Lake (Kisiskâciwan: Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly, 40-41).