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The Mattole, including the Bear River Indians, are a group of Native Americans in California. Their traditional lands were along the Mattole and Bear Rivers near Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California. A notable difference between the Mattole and other indigenous peoples of California is that the men traditionally had facial tattoos (on the forehead), while other local groups traditionally restricted facial tattooing to women.

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The Mattole river drains an area of the coastal mountains and empties directly into the Pacific Ocean.

The Mattole Restoration Council is made up of many other groups and networks, such as the Mattole Coordinating Council whose members are the Environmental Protection Information Center, the Mattole Soil and Water Conservation Committee, the Upper Mattole Property Owners Association, the Mattole Watershed Salmon Support Group, the Mattole Watershed Taxpayers Association, the Redwoods Monastery Community, the Coastal Headwaters Association, and the Sinkyone Council.

Salmon Support Group is the study of a large slide of a hillside into the Mattole river.

Plains of old, the migrations of elk and deer through the Mogollon Rim country and the migrations of the Caribou in the north, the migrating life of the Mattole is the Salmon.

Information can be obtained from: Mattole Restoration Council, 3848 Wilder Ridge Road, Garberville, Ca.