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 ...

Lisa Marie Stahl became a newspaper columnist when she was just 15, writing about the traditions and day-to-day activities of her Hutterite colony in north-central Montana. Her slice-of-life columns ...

A review of ‘I Am Hutterite’, Mary Ann Kirkby’s memoir of growing up in a radical Anabaptist community. Most evangelicals know a bit about horse-and-buggy driving, technology-shunning Amish and ...

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 ...

As a woman from the Hutterite culture, I have spent my writing career trying to rehabilitate decades of hostilities and misrepresentations about my people and their way of life. The suspicion and ...

In an effort to reclaim her culture and discover what life would have been like had she not left her Hutterite colony as a child, Kirkby (I Am Hutterite) went back. For more than two years she visited ...

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 ...

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. David J.

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 ...

Three Hutterite men have posed for a milk advertisement, even though many of their culture object for religious reasons to being photographed. The trio from the Hutterite Brethren of Viking are posed ...