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Hutterites are Protestants of German descent whose traditional, religious-centered lives have been compared to that of the Amish and Mennonites, but they live in commune-like colonies in rural areas ...

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 ...

Nurse Kerri Lutjens looks over Rylan Hofer, an 8-month-old Hutterite, during a home visit at the Tschetter Colony near Olivet, South Dakota. AP OLIVET, S.D. — A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie ...

The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the past few years gaining the trust of several communities of Hutterites, a deeply religious people with ancestral ties to the Amish who ...

Thirty-five years ago, as a young Methodist minister, Donald W. Huffman watched a community explode. “We could look out our window and see the fires burning in the Hough,” says the retired professor ...

Furthermore, the twentieth-century movement imitating the original Hutterites, the Brüderhof, founded by German and English intellectuals, and still made up largely of college-educated and quite ...

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 ...

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 ...