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 - 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 ...

Donna Benning, 7, swings as George Hofer and his son Adam, 3, walk to breakfast Aug. 17, 2006. The Spokane Hutterian Brethren colony has 87 members from 17 families that share four last names: Gross, ...

Hutterites have lived in North Dakota for as long as most of their German-Russians and even migrated from some of the same areas in south Russia and Ukraine, but unless someone catches sight of ...

A TV documentary series about an Anabaptist community in Montana offers a "distorted" and contrived image, bishops representing the Hutterite faith in the U.S. and Canada said Thursday. John Stahl, ...

(RNS) Members of a Hutterite colony in Montana that's the focus of a new National Geographic reality show say the series is a ``distorted and exploitative'' depiction of their life that is not what ...