Get ready for a very personal look at a community you’ve never seen before on TV — or anywhere else, for that matter. National Geographic Channel’s “American Colony: Meet the Hutterites,” a 10-episode ...

MOORHEAD – Mary-Ann Kirkby knew she had a story to tell when she wrote her 2007 memoir “I Am Hutterite,” chronicling her upbringing in a Manitoban Hutterite colony and her parents’ decision to leave ...

Although the North American Hutterites trace their origins to South Tyrol, no attempts have been made to examine the genetic migration history of the Hutterites before emigrating to the United States ...

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 ...

Editor's note: In 2014, Montana celebrates 150 years as a territory and 125 years as a state. We're marking both landmark birthdays each Sunday with a Montana Moment, a chronological look at key ...

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 ...

CONRAD, Mont. -- If it wasn't for the Hutterites, the Big Sky State would be home to only a small number of hogs. Forty colonies account for a whopping 95 percent of Montana's hog production. Midway ...

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 voice’s German lilt is stronger ...

Hutterites take their name from Jacob Hutter, whose last name means “hat-maker,” from eastern Europe, one of the leaders of the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century Reformation era. Hutter was ...

On a rainy Sunday evening following the first of its Long Table dinner series, the kitchen staff at The Resort at Paws Up collectively dug into a strawberry-rhubarb pie. "We brought out the forks and ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (CN) - A federal judge ordered a South Dakota Hutterite colony to restore protected wetlands that it drained and converted into farmland. U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier's 9-page ...