Mattole
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Mattole |
| Ethnie: | MATTOLE |
| Language: | Mattole |
| Family: | Pacific Coast Athapaskan |
| Stock: | Athapaskan |
| Phylum: | Na-Dene |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwest California |
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| The Mattole were a sedentary coastal hunter/gatherer tribe. The Pacific Coast Athapaskans arrived in the area late in the first millennium from Canada. The tribe was located in California on the Bear and Mattole River drainages, and a portion of the Eel River. They later indeed suffered from the influx of gold rush settlers and miners. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| Bear River and Mattole subdivisions |
| Present Locations |
| Extinct as a culture, survivors absorbed into local culture with the Bear River band settling on the Rohnerville Rancheria |
| Year | History |
| 1850 | Influx of settlers and miners into territories, violence ensued |
| 1853 | First recognized by US government |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1,200 | Aboriginal population (Baumhoff) | |
| 1700 | 1,200 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1770 | 500 | Kroeber estimate |
| 1800 | 500 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1900 | 400 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1910 | 34 | Census |
| 2000 | 100 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| None |
| Mattole Sites |
| Mattole Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MVB |
| Mattole Language www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/Summaries/Languages/Mattole.pdf |
| Mattole Language http://www.native-languages.org/mattole.htm |
| Mattole Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=MVB |
| Mattole - SFSU Narrative http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/NativeWebPages/mattole.html |
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