GRAND FORKS - A new reality TV show about life in a Hutterite colony in Montana gives outsiders a glimpse of a unique religious culture centered in the Northern Plains of North America. But it's also ...

This undated image released by National Geographic Channels shows Hutterite Judy Hofer picking carrots from the garden in King Colony, Mont. "Meet the Hutterites," a National Geographic documentary ...

Doubts about the Hutterite way of life became overwhelming as Glenda Maendel prepared for her baptism. The daughter of the minister on her North Dakota colony, Maendel wrote that she “knew in my heart ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

Jason Waldner could easily still be working in the chicken barn of a North Dakota Hutterite colony. It’s the job he was given, but not the job he chose. Instead, he is a partner in a construction and ...

When someone leaves a Hutterite colony, it’s an ache like no other for those left behind, wrote Linda Maendel in her book, “Hutterite Diaries.” “From the cradle to the grave, Hutterites are cared for ...

HILLSBORO, N.D. -- Despite protests from some neighbors, a Hutterite colony likely will start construction in the spring in southern Traill County. On Wednesday, the Bohnsack Township Board approved ...

(RNS) Members of a Hutterite colony in Montana that's the focus of a new National Geographic reality show say the series is a ``distorted and exploitative'' depiction of their life that is not what ...

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EDMUNDS COUNTY — Classrooms in the Ipswich School District’s three Hutterite colony schools are similar to elementary and middle-school classrooms in other public schools. Walls are adorned with ...

HELENA, Mont. – Leaders of a Hutterite colony are demanding an apology from the National Geographic Society and a pledge that it never again broadcast a television show they say misrepresented their ...