The dance lasted about an hour.

Presents were then distributed to the Indians, and all took their departure.
Pontiac now summoned the Indians about Detroit to another council.

On this occasion the chiefs and warriors assembled in the council-house in the Potawatomi village south of the fort.

When all were gathered together Pontiac rose and, as at the council at the river Ecorces, in a torrent of words and with vehement gestures, denounced the British.
He declared that under the new occupancy of the forts in the Indian country the red men were neglected and their wants were no longer supplied as they had been in the days of the French; that exorbitant prices were charged by the traders for goods; that when the Indians were departing for their winter camps to hunt for furs they were no longer able to obtain ammunition and clothing on credit; and, finally, that the British desired the death of the Indians, and it was therefore necessary as an act of self-preservation to destroy them.

He once more displayed the war-belt that he pretended to have received from the king of France.