ABSTRACT
The Ojibwa, Chippewa, and Menominee are closely related culturally and were, at the time of the studies, distributed acculturatively from a culturally intact baseline among the Inland Ojibwa to a virtually culturally assimilated Menominee socioeconomic elite. The typical psychological structure indicated by the Rorschach for the native-oriented group is characterized by the striking lack of overt emotional responsiveness. That which is present is highly controlled and quite tentative. The reader familiar with Rorschach scoring and interpretation will see that all of the aforementioned statements are direct applications of standard Rorschach procedure at the time of the study. The elite, acculturated adaptation is successful, as judged by criteria furnished by the socioeconomic structure and mainstream culture of the non-Menominee American society outside the reservation community. The psychological construction from the Rorschach protocols served as the psychological base line for further analyses of the various sociocultural categories on the continuum.
