Ozark Region
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- Created on: 20-02-18 11:19
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- Ozark Region
- Community
- Traditional Ozark culture includes stories and tunes passed orally between generations through community music parties and other informal gatherings
- Square dances were an important social avenue throughout the Ozarks into the 20th century.
- the fiddler holds a distinct place in both the community and folklore.
- Community fiddlers revered for carrying local tunes; regionally, traveling fiddlers brought tunes and entertainmenteven while many viewed their arrival as a threat to morality
- Mills were important centers of culture and commerce; dispersed widely throughout the region, mills served local needs,
- Industry
- Today hunting and fishing for recreation are common activities and an important part of the tourist industry.
- Foraging for mushrooms (especially morels) and for ginseng is common and financially supported by established buyers in the area.
- The Ozarks contain ore deposits of lead, zinc, iron and barite.
- Supports beef cattle ranching, and dairy farming is common across the area. Dairy farms are usually cooperative affairs, with small farms selling to a corporate wholesaler who packages product under a common brand for retail sales.
- The numerous rivers and streams of the region saw hundreds of water-powered timber and grist mills.
- Poultry farming and food processing are significant industries throughout the region
- Historical status
- Early settlers in Missouri were American pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the 19th century, followed in the 1840s and 1850s by Irish and German immigrants.
- The Ozarks were home to a broad mix of pioneers, trappers, early French settlers and Native Americans
- Early settlers relied on hunting, fishing, and trapping, and foraging to supplement their diets and incomes
- Has a histiry of attracting a set of people or having a set of white supremiscst who live in these areas
- The region also saw a rise in African-American culture, due in large part to the movement of Southern slave-owners into the region prior to the Civil War.
- Early settlers in Missouri were American pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the 19th century, followed in the 1840s and 1850s by Irish and German immigrants.
- Community
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