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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 concerned many ...

Hutterites have lived in North Dakota for as long as most of their German-Russians and even migrated from some of the same areas in south Russia and Ukraine, but unless someone catches sight of ...

Glenda Maendel’s German-influenced intonation is in keeping with a North Dakotan accent, although certain sounds in her soft voice hint at an unfamiliar dialect. Her German lilt is stronger than many ...

The Spittoon points to a new paper, Drawing the history of the Hutterite population on a genetic landscape: inference from Y-chromosome and mtDNA genotypes, which I've been meaning to look at more ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) – A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an ...

OLIVET, S.D. — A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie dress and a church service in German is all in a day's work for Kerri Lutjens. The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the ...

HUTTERITES OF MONTANA. Photographs and Text by Laura Wilson. Yale University Press, $39.95. "IN the West, there's hardly a belt buckle or a spur, let alone a cowboy, that hasn't been photographed, or ...

In their own personal chapter, nine ex-Hutterites write about a way of life they describe as a "very oppressive regime." All were members of a colony from the time they were born in the 1980s until ...

CHOTEAU — When a chain snapped during an attempt to free a tractor stuck in the mud during seeding, the accident cost a young member of New Rockport Hutterite Colony his arm. The next day, George ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- 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 ...

When Lona Running Wolf started working with Hutterite schools, she was struck by what she saw unfolding on the colonies. She felt it was reminiscent of what transpired among her own community, the ...