OZK 150: Introduction to Ozarks Studies - Lecture 1: The Where and the What of the Ozarks
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- In this lecture Dr. Blevins introduces students to Ozarks geography and geology and discusses various ways of defining a region and its inhabitants.
This course provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the study of the Ozarks region and its inhabitants, including Ozarks history and geography, regional folk culture and traditions, and current issues.
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I was born and raised in Springfield, MO. My mother's side of the family has been in the Ozarks for generations. My interest in that heritage has recently been rekindled, so I'm delighted to find this series of lectures.
I was raised in Crawford county Arkansas and I'm thankful and proud to say that I was raised in the "ozarks"
At Ouachita Baptist University it was supposed to be a trick question with no bonus points on an English test because there was supposed to be no answer. "What is the plural of ya'll?" A no brainer for a Boone county resident. I got extra points with "All ya'll "!
We used to hear the term 'yu-uns'; I think it's the plural of "you ones".
@@ContinuousRefinement That there is some hillbilly grammar if i's ever heard it speaked.
Arkansas-Ozarks Geology Professor here. A+ on the geology. Although, it's a little Missouri biased ;)
I'm excited to watch through these lectures, I'm sure I'll find some information I use in my own classroom.
Hey Mr. geology professor. Speaking of Missouri biased (: ...can you explain what the "Kissee Mills structural trend" fault is and where I can find more information?
I saw it on GeoSTRAT but cant find information. Is it part of the Chesapeake fault?
Thank you.
Wouldn't give it a A+, as the description of the St. Francois Mountains formation kinda leaves out that they were Volcanic Islands, akin to the lesser Antilles of the Caribbean of today.
@@twotone3471 I live right by the junction of 23 and 16...yup Booger Co..there are lava flows here..I was not surprised one bit..
Viva Dr. Blevins. Best historian and teacher from the Ozarks ever thx bye
You need to talk one of your geology professor friends into doing an in-depth series of lectures on the geological formation of the Ozarks. I frequently go back and revisit your lectures. I grew up in Ripley County, MO and I love the history of this area.
7th generation Ozarkian god bless this place
gona have a bunch of kids and raise them here
Me too
The Main reason Most very SW Illinois area claims to be the border of the Ozarks is because the terrain is Classic Ozark. Come Look….👀
they do call it the Illinois ozarks
This course provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the study of the Ozarks region and its inhabitants, including Ozarks history and geography, regional folk culture and traditions, and current issues.
don't give me your "social construct" Bullshite...piss off
@@232323C I love the Ozarks and I am an Ozarker so I know it sounds like he is dismissing the identity but he isn’t.
He’s just saying that regions based off of A particular people and their identity are a construct of that society. It’s just a way that social theorists conceptualize these things.
Just to repeat, I do think it does sound dismissive in many cases, but I don’t think he means it in that way.
Also, the term is maybe a little pointless as everything human organization is just classified as a “construct” which makes it sounds like it didn’t also develop naturally through selection, adaptation, etc. and all identities are artificial (which comes off as very dehumanizing).
Y'all = You all...Yu'uns = You ones.
67 and grew up in Des Arc, MO during the 50s & 60s. Wonderful memories going to Poplar Bluff for shopping or Dr. visits.
thanks for putting this up. I'm doing research for a writing project and this is a good place to start :)
I grew up in Louisiana, I was in junior high and high school in the 70s. We where not taught that Louisiana was part of the ozarks. We where also taught that Missouri is not a southern state. It is above the mason dixion line.
I am from that tiny little part of Kansas Ozarks. One part of my Family is from Berryville, AR, and were some of the first founders of that area.
Reporting in from Joplin, MO.
I live in Southwestern Illinois and the highland areas here and in Southern Illinois are Identified by some as the Illinois Ozarks. I have lived here all of my life and I think of myself as being Ozarkian and I can identify with Ozarkian culture and ideals.
My family was from Lebanon and Stoutland MO. I retired to S.W. MO.
Love this
Had family farm in st Francis county on downslope of Womack plateau…you are very knowledgeable about this area where my family recreated for four generations
So helpful, thanks. Coming out for a road trip!
I would be happy calling it Ozark Valleys, though Ozark Hollows I think has a better ring.
Post all of the lectures if you can this is great for writers trying to break into writing about the history of the land we love.
A hollow is way smaller than a valley.
It's pronounced "HOLLERS" in the Ozarks!
Nope its "Hollas" at least here.
There are different theories about how the plateau adopted the name "Ozark".
It may have derived from a French variation of "aux arc", meaning "to the arches", referring to the many natural arches that remain from collapsed caves.
It may be derived from an distinct observation of early (French) explorers that the early Native Americans who lived here used and carried 'bows' (l'arc) and arrows...a distinct recognition of the Arkansas tribes who inhabited the area.
Sodey Pop was also a term used in Delmarva by the old timers. These same old timers spoke of Sannee Claus 🎅, a Beaut-ee-ful Day, etc.
I've heard it spelled Sody Pop. It was a colloquialism for a Cokie-Colee.
Haha, my mother's family is from Iberia. If you are there you are definitely in the Ozarks!
We live north of Dixon...my wife's family ("Dake") is from Iberia.
Thank you!
We pronounce it "core-toys" is this part of the Eastern Ozarks..Great lecture and video...
nice job, good depth
I'm from the Bootheel, flat lander. I have heard many of the words and phrases. This is very interesting
I was raised in Boone County, Arkansas, We considered Springfield Mo. as "top of the Ozarks" Branson Mo. as "Heart of the Ozarks", Harrison Ar. as the "Hub (center) of the Ozarks).
Most of my paternal grandfathers family was from Jasper not far from Harrison my grandpa and his grandfather were both born in Missouri though oddly I assume they were both born while their parents were visiting family since they lived in Newton county for nearly 100 years.
Being raised by my paternal grandmother in rural Johnson County AR, I reckon I have an plentiful vocabulary taining to Ozark folklore an such.
Reckon so.
Shannon country here. In a lot of ways we would of been better off if they hadn't put all that money into the area.
I grew up near Tahlequah, OK. We didn't consider ourselves as being in the Ozarks, but there was obviously a lot of similar cultural influences... but combined with native American, western, mid-western, and southern as well. "Sodey-pop" was heard from older generations, especially if they originated from Arkansas, but younger people said "soda-pop", and later shortened to just "pop" (or just "soda"). The dialect changed a lot from my grandpa to my dad to me. Sometimes growing up I had to really focus just to understand my grandpa. Would be interesting to view this entire course.
I remember sodie-pops.
Fundamentally, the Ozarks should be defined by geology!
Why?
Ozarkians are way more about culture than rocks. It's just erosion. Dey ain't mountainees, they'se justie ditchwees.
Jed Clampett, Granny, Ellie Mae, Jethro Bodine are from Taney County. It's not so much if you are in the Ozarks, but is the Ozarks in you?
That darlin is a fact.
We settled up Ashley Creek in 1799. Texas county is the Ozark Ridge.
Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲
Didnt Aux Arcs mean 'at the bow' (of the river) and it turned into Oz-ark. So wasn't it a simple navigational refference to designate a place?
Interesting.
Ozarks, or Appalachia, take your pic. I'd go either, or!!
But that Appalachians are much much bigger..mom's from the poconos and dad from Fayetteville..7 Gen. Of our blood here.
Anything west and/or north of Doniphan Missouri, is the Ozarks . Anything east or south of Doniphan is the Mississippi Delta or the Mississippi alluvial plain . It's very noticeable where you are once you leave town, depending on the direction you're headed once you leave .
Anyone have a link to the ethnic/anthropological study of Taney County that Blevins references around 38 minutes in?
He could mean this one:www.jstor.org/stable/2561819?seq=1 I simply searched the term "Ethnic study of the Ozark Mountains" and there were several results. This one looked like it may be the one Dr. Blevins references. There may be more.
If you are interested in the early ethnic make up of America I recommend the book Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.
It won’t get you to the exact Ozark ethnicities but it’ll help you to learn the founding stock’s identity and from there follow their migration westward.
One thing I found when studying the history of the United States and our demographics was the prevalence of Scottish and a few Irish settlers on the early frontier in the Appalachian region. Later you see a trend of mostly Anglo and Scottish stock moving further west, along with Germans, as metropolitan areas saw over crowding.
Newer Irish migrants didn’t really go to the frontier but stayed in the metropolitan North East. This trend would continue with future waves of migration. So overtime the original 13 colonies actually became slightly less Anglo while the west became more like the demographics of the original 13 colonies at their founding. That is until more people started moving west.
I wish I had seen this right when it first came out I would have hooked him up with some awesome cartography software. Probably Corral
The Ozarks are named after the Aux Arcs. French fur trappers settled this area. The james and white river confluence.
What is the Aux Arcs?
I was born in Cole County(not Ozarks), but our family came from Miller County (Ozarks) There really isn't much difference between southern Cole County and Miller County, but one is in the Ozarks and one is not.
Born in Illinois and although it's controversial: the Shawnee Hills of Illinois are the "Illinois Ozarks."
I grew up in Boonville Missouri, but never considered myself Ozarker.
Spingfield is prosperous because of an increased intersectionality of trade routes
Please post the rest of the course
I thought course one was just a teaser because I couldn't find any more after that on the Missouri State University TH-cam page probably cuz there's so much great content to sift through. Then a day later the rest of them showed up in my recommended TH-cam. Thank you so much, God bless
Nice presentation. But the maps and nomenclature is a bunch of hocome.
I am from Pope Co. Ark. I live in Laurel Co. Ky South East Ky. The culture is mostly the same in both places.
I thought the same thing when traveling through parts of the foothills in Tenn. and in northern Georgia. I believe it’s the fact it’s all been left behind by industrialization, they’ve had a frontier/ hill folk identity, population generally comprised of Scottish and Anglo settlers (later German), has always been very rural, etc.
@@Adam-hj8ou My people settled in Pope Co, Arkansas in 1836 they were from Cabarrus Co. North Carolina. I still own part of their property. The culture traveled from N.C. Tenn. Ky. Va. to Ark. and Mo. a long time ago. It is still alive and well here in Eastern Ky. where I live now.
@@garyshinn4626 yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. That’s kind of what I assumed as Arkansas and Missouri would be settled later on (obviously haha).
There is a great book I recommended to someone else called “Albions Seed” which covers the origins of the founding stock of the US and were they settled. From there you can follow their paths west.
Gotta love maps
This is the same land in the Netflix series?
Yes. But that whole show is filmed elsewhere. Only the “B” roll and overhead footage was filmed in the Ozarks around Lake if the Ozarks area.
Thanks for clarification.
Ozark(s) is a derivative of French, yes. But you're a little off. Aux mean 'the' and arcs means 'bows.' It refers to the bows and bends in the Piney River in Missouri. It refers to an area. What you stated is incorrect. Maybe because you're and Arkie?
Ozark Hippie Camp has some good youtube caving and hiking content.
Missouri and Arkansas are ill defined territories. The Mississippi Delta deserves to be included in Louisiana, The Highlands deserve their own governance, and Missouri North of the Missouri River should belong to Iowa. As they exist, they are so contrary as to work at cross purposes, often leading to bad governance for both states.
I call Northern Missourah Southern Iowa.
I hope you won't make me say what IOWA stands for.
Well said!!
Arty-chokes, poke sal-led, ginsang,, stud Haus staly-yun, overt chyunder, aeskya pa, feesh,. Alabama talk
Grandin, Mo born and raised..
Just a quick note to the person on the camera. It’s less important to follow the speaker and more helpful to focus on what they are pointing at or describing. Imagine being the viewer. Thank you.
Drink everytime he says MAP 😂
All his questions....at 34:56. Yeep.
And millions years agoooo lolllllll
You'll should consider the Flood. Millions of yrs.... that is pathetic. Look at what happened in a short time after Mt. St. Helen eruption. I live in Manitoba. But I am attracted to the Ozarks. Everything sounds good except for the Evolution theory.
who is the professor?
I know this is super late, but it is Dr. Brooks Blevins. He is an expert on the field of Ozarks Studies.
Charles Burgess He has a little bit of a Southern accent.
@@CJColvin ... Lol yes . Most people from the Ozarks do
@@doniphan72ify You are correct mate. The part of Missouri that has a southern accent would be the Ozark region.
@@CJColvin ... And the Mississippi Delta Region of Missouri which has more of an Alabama type of accent .
Yes that’s how one can talk to a 100 year old. .? I’m sure he would class your up bringing as weird too.whos to judge who
the earth is not millions or billions of years old.
Holy shit I wondered what Billy bob's brother up to
Could do without all the “millions of years “ talk, but otherwise very interesting!
Mega time (viz. "millions" or even "billions") suggests geology. Geology with its mega time fundamentally defines the Ozarks, other definitions are fundamentally derived from this.