 Modern written Pimicikamak customary law is subject to acceptance by consensus of a general assembly of the Pimicikamak public.The roles of the Secretary to the Councils as keeper of customary laws and as the interface between the oral Cree traditional government and the written English world it faces may have arisen in the 1990s.Pimicikamak's four councils derive from its traditional form of governance by the elders and women.