Some Hutterite children in South Dakota are attending a public school, at least for the time being, because the one at their colony burned down. The story provides some insights into the approaches taken by the Hutterites to educating their children. According to a news report from Brookings, SD, the… Continue reading…
Some Hutterite children in South Dakota are attending a public school, at least for the time being, because the one at their colony burned down. The story provides some insights into the approaches taken by the Hutterites to educating their children. According to a news report from Brookings, SD, the… Continue reading…
The Cayley Hutterite Colony, located 30 miles south of the outskirts of Calgary, was recognized a couple weeks ago at a ceremony in the city for the flood relief it provided recently in southwestern Alberta. According to an article in the Nanton News last week, the Hutterites had pitched in… Continue reading…
A museum in northwestern Montana is now displaying a special exhibit about the Hutterites, designed to dispel the false images about them aired a year ago by the National Geographic Channel. The exhibit, prepared by Kristy Calvery, Curator of the Conrad Transportation and Historical Museum in Conrad, Montana, showcases the… Continue reading…
Recent news in Cavalier County, North Dakota, stirs up memories of major events in American peace history, even though the current developments are relatively mundane. A news report last week indicated that the Cavalier County Jobs Development Authority (CCJDA) is renewing its efforts to buy an abandoned anti-ballistic missile complex… Continue reading…
James Stahl, the young tour guide, tells a reporter from the nearby town newspaper that while lots of things are now done differently in the colonies, basic Hutterite values have not changed. Giving a tour last week for the Mountain View Gazette, a weekly paper in Olds, Alberta, Stahl described… Continue reading…
The Big Sky Hutterite colony, located in northern Montana near the Canadian border, has decided to take its dispute with the state to the U.S. Supreme Court. Montana passed a law in 2009 which the initiating legislator admitted was designed as an anti-Hutterite measure. Corporate lobbyists advocating the new law… Continue reading…
The Montana Supreme Court voted last week 4 to 3 against the Big Sky Hutterite Colony, throwing out its suit to overturn the discriminatory provisions of a state anti-Hutterite law passed in 2009. The colony, located near Cut Bank in northwestern Montana, had sued the state and won a lower… Continue reading…
The tradition of holiday giving appears to be alive and well among the Hutterites of southwestern Saskatchewan. A news story four years ago described the way a number of colonies were cooperating with the local Salvation Army post in the small city of Swift Current, SK, by supplying tons of… Continue reading…
Two very different news stories last week relate to the same theme: how should a country like the U.S. treat dissidents who violate its laws when they express their objections to warfare? One article was a reminder about the torture of Hutterites in military prisons in 1918, while the other… Continue reading…
