Associations to the word «Mattole»

Wiktionary

MATTOLE, noun. A group of Native Americans in California, whose traditional lands were along the Mattole and Bear Rivers near Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County.

Dictionary definition

MATTOLE, noun. A member of the Athapaskan people living in northwestern California.
MATTOLE, noun. The Athapaskan language spoken by the Mattole.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne