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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 ...

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I grew up in Edgeley, and the Willowbank Hutterite colony was within our city limits. Although they only lived a few miles away, I never really gave the Hutterites much thought. We rarely saw them in ...

SPRING PRAIRIE COLONY, Minn. - The yoga positions proved briefly cumbersome for the 13 students in Cheryl Gottenborg's elementary class. The kindergarten through third-grade students giggled with arms ...

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 ...

It’d been a year, but all of Brenda Hofer’s doubts and anxiety flooded back. Fortunately, so did her dreams. On May 24, 2006, she literally fled from the place she called home — a Hutterite colony in ...

LEWISTOWN — An art project that put disposable cameras into the hands of four-dozen Hutterite children has provided a rare glimpse into one of the state’s most recognizable but least understood ...

This photograph is on display as part of the “Hutterite Life” exhibit at Goshen College. Various aspects of Hutterite history, faith and culture, from their European beginnings in the 16th century ...