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The Dariusleut/Dariusleit, are a Hutterite group. The Huttrrites fled Austria and Germany. First to Romania, but finally found refuge in Ukraine (1770), at the time part of the Tsariust Empire. The Dariusleuty emerged from the wider Hutterite community in Ukraine (1860). Michael Waldner and Jakob Hofer (1830-1900) organized a separate group among the Hutterites in Hutterdorf, a villsage in Ukraine -- the Schmiedeleut. At about the same time another group of Hutterites did the same under the leadership of Darius Walter (1835-1903) also living in Hutterdorf. They were, however, on the opposite side of their village. They became known as the Dariusleut -- a play on the first name of the founder. Increasingly the Russian state was encroaching on the long standing autonomy y of minorities like the Poles, Jews, various German groups, and others. This meant that demeaning that the Hutterites learn Russian and most ominously serve in the military. The Dariusleut along with the Schmiedeleut left Ukraine and headed for America (1874). They began at Silver Lake, South Dakota. They founded their imitial American colony at Wolf Creek, South Dakota. It would be the mother colony of the Dariusleut. This worked out fine until World War I. The Germans were the most important immigrant group in America. World War I resulted in a wave of anti-German sentiment. And worse still for the Hutterites was the military draft. The U.S. Government left it up to the Army to assess all claims for conscious objector status to the draft. Two Hutterite conscientious objectors, brothers Joseph and Michael Hofer, died from abuse at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth. The result was that all six Dariusleut colonies moved to Alberta, Canada. Now Canada also joined Britain to fight the Germans in World War I. But the anti-German wve was more constrained and the Government was more willing to recognize conscious objector status. This apparently boiled over and with mo expectation of another war, the Schmiedeleut started setting up new colonies in the United States (1930). This was in Montana, the American+ state south of Alberta. Which made since since the farming environment is similar in Alberta and Montana. Like all Hutterite children, the Dariusleit attend an on-colony school built by the community, but usually staffed by the local public school boards. Colony teachers are for the most part non-Hutterites and generally follow the provincial or state curricula. There is also a special German teacher (Teicha Schuellehrer). The children begin attending school at age 5 years meaning Kindergarten. There isa degree of separation, such as at meals, between the boys and girls, Until recently they rarely advanced beyond primary school, but in recent years they began achievung high school diplomas--usually though televised courses. And now many of the less conservative colonies, often meaning the Schmiedleut and Dariusleut colonies, there is in interest in higher education. There are now university graduates tat ome of the colonies to helpwith the high school level program,. This in part reflects the increasing technological innovations in farming and the move toward higher end agricultural crops.
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