# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Invented Indigenous Histories of Appalachian Show Caves
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 12:00 pm – Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: "The Invented Indigenous Histories of Appalachian Show Caves"
Dr. Chelsea Fisher, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Show caves – caves operated as commercial attractions - have been a fixture of Appalachian tourism since the nineteenth century. In this talk, Dr. Fisher will examine Appalachian show caves as a technology of colonialism, which extended principles of terra nullius (“nobody’s land”) underground by casting caves as empty wastes and then filling them with settler fantasies about Indigenous culture and history. Through an exploration of Gilded Age and Victorian-era show cave guidebooks, souvenirs, literature, and other memorabilia, Fisher will show how seemingly innocuous tourist traps reproduce settler fantasies, and discuss how expelling these fantasies can make room for the restoration of anti-colonial and Indigenous histories to subterranean realms.

Presented in person and virtually. To attend via Zoom, register via this link: https://bit.ly/4kTlxXF
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lancaster
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Native American Studies Center
- **lat**: 34.71949
- **long**: -80.7701
- **full address**: Native American Studies Center, 119 S. Main St,Lancaster, South Carolina, United States

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- **organizer**: USC Lancaster (https://allevents.in/org/usc-lancaster/24771939)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Native American Studies Center, 119 S. Main St,Lancaster, South Carolina, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** USC Lancaster
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
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