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 ...

Hutterites migrated to North America in the 1870s, spreading out across South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and into Canada ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A federal judge in South Dakota has rejected a request to dismiss charges against a Hutterite religious colony accused of negligence in a deadly traffic crash, which could send the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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