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This photograph shows school children in the Hutterite colony of Pembrook colony, located in Edmunds County, South Dakota. As you can see, they have no problem using modern devices. The colony belongs to the Schmiedeleut branch, one of two branches. They are the branch more open to the use of modern technology. The Huttrites were founded in Austria early in the Reformstion (1527). They take thir name from their charismatic leader--Jakob Hutter. Th Schmiedeleut branch is much more recen (1859). They were founded in Hutterdorf, Ukraine -- right in the middle of the current fighting in eastern Ukraine. The founder was blacksmith Michael Waldner -- Schmied Michel. Ukraine at the time was part of the Tsarist Empire. Anabaptist groups were so oppressed in Germany and elsewhere in Western Europe that they fled east. The Tsarist authorities tolerated them as a way of developing rural areas and allowed them a substantial degree of autonomy. They moved on to Bon Homme, South Dakota (1874). This is the mother colony of all Schmiedeleut Hutterite colonies in North America. It is also the oldest surviving Hutterite Colony in the world. The other Hutterites still in Ukraine would flee the Soviets after World War I (1914-18). The current division is recent. They divided into two subgroups (Schmiedeleut 1 and Schmiedeleut 2) over issues regarding leadership, modern education, and church governance. Today, the Hutterites have agricultural colonies in Alberta, Manitoba, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota. As in all Hutterite colonies, private property is strictly forbidden. This is one pf the major differences with other sects of the Anabaptist tradition. They engage in large-scale, mechanized farming, livestock ranching, and manufacturing. The Hutterites are a communal Christian group, part of the Anabaptist tradition that emerged from the Reformation in Germany (16th century). They share theological roots with the Amish and Mennonites. These groups were severely oppressed by secular governing and majority religious authorities, including other Protestants. Religious toleration would eventually be championed by Protestant churches. But his was not the case in he early tears. Thus they were constantly on the move, some even wound up in Russia/Soviet Union. It was in America and Canada, however, that they finally found religious toleration. There are now some 50,000 Hutterites living in self-sufficient farming colonies (Bruderhöfe) across upper/northern Great Plains of Western Canada and the United States.
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