In the cemetery at Rockport Colony, South Dakota, are the small, rectangular grave markers for Joseph and Michael Hofer, each bearing one of the brothers' names, his birth and death dates and, in ...

GREAT FALLS (AP) - Montanans' family trees point more toward Germany than to anywhere else, according to the latest U.S. Census data. Twenty-seven percent of Montanans claimed German backgrounds when ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The local Hutterite colony is once again sharing their mountain of surplus potatoes with the community in a simple act of kindness. The Hutterites’ tradition of sharing unsold ...

Richard Waldner was 16 when he stole a car to help his sister abandon a Hutterite colony near Winnipeg. The brother and sister took a vehicle from the property and drove to Portage la Prairie on a ...

‘The community had 11,000 chickens and every able-bodied person helped out during the two days of butchering’ The Hutterites are an Anabaptist movement – they believe in adult baptism and pacifism.

In the hustle-bustle of the H-bomb age, the North American Hutterites* are remarkable for their ascetic isolation and puritanical dress. Scattered in some 100 farm settlements across the Dakotas, ...

The Wilson Hutterite Colony, although self-sufficient, supports small and local businesses in the Lethbridge community. Thursday at the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs session hosted at the ...

Hutterite woman Sarah Maendel of the Green Swamp Colony dressed as scariest thing she could think of this Halloween – a Mennonite. “I had most of the attire already,” said Maendel. “Just needed to ...