Chisholm Hatfield visits South Korea to research ecological knowledge
Samantha Chisholm Hatfield was
selected for a Field Research Fellowship
to South Korea for her work in traditional
ecological knowledge (TEK) with indig-
enous groups. She worked in conjunction
with Mokpo National University under
lead direction of TEK and island special-
ist Dr. Sun-Kee Hong. The fellowship was
awarded via the Korea Foundation.
Part of her research was to study the
Haenyo women divers who are famous
internationally and commonly known in
western societies as the women abalone
divers. Most people call the women the
Jeju divers as Jeju Island is the location
for which they are known.
Chisholm Hatfield spent April to
July 2017 in South Korea doing research,
returning home to fulfill duties as head
woman dancer at the Sauk Suiattle Pow-
Wow and resume her research work at
Oregon State University.
She went to 10 island areas as well as
multiple inland and mountainous areas for
her research. She had the unique honor
to go out on boats with the women divers
while they worked, getting to see firsthand
the areas where some groups collect.
The Haenyo are a small and highly
unique matriarchal diving community of
women who collect resources through
diving unassisted. The work is strenuous
and dangerous, with most of the women
in their 60s and 70s, though many women
in their late 80s are still diving.
Abalone is one of the main items
collected, but other foods such as sea-
weeds, conch snails and octopus are also
collected. Abalone is a traditional food
that is highly prized, has been one of the
hallmarks for the divers and is an intri-
cate aspect of economic revitalization in
Korean history.
Chisholm Hatfield was invited to
present a public talk of her previous work
on American Indian TEK and showcased
the Siletz Tribe and the TEK knowledge
members still have and use. As a result of
her public talk, she was interviewed by
Korean Broadcasting System, the national
public broadcaster of South Korea,
becoming the first foreign woman to be
interviewed for the station.
During her time there, Chisholm
Hatfield also was honored with a Korean
name during a naming ceremony with a
team of lead calligraphers who are highly
recognized in the country.
She has been invited back in Decem-
ber to speak at the International Confer-
ence on Jeju Haenyo (Women Divers):
Traditional Environmental Knowledge
and Oral History.
Courtesy photos from Samantha Chisholm Hatfield
The naming ceremony (below) and Haenyo women divers (right)
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