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 ...

N.D. Hutterites says they are unfairly portrayed by ex-members of the religious community INKSTER, N.D. -- Ex-members of the Forest River Colony of Hutterites near Inkster, N.D., are speaking out ...

HELENA, Mont. -- 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 ...

WASHINGTON - Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative version" of life inside a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...