The Hutterites are an Anabaptist Christian communal sect, tracing origin to Jakob Hutter in sixteenth-century Central Europe, distinguished from other Anabaptist groups such as the Amish and Mennonites by full communal ownership of property, with members living and working collectively on large agricultural colonies (Bruderhof) that split off to found daughter colonies once population growth exceeds a customary threshold. Hutterite colonies today are concentrated in the Canadian Prairie provinces and the northern United States, following a documented history of migration from Central and Eastern Europe to North America in the 1870s to escape religious persecution and, during the First World War, conscription. Hutterite religious and economic life is governed by an elected colony council and preacher, and, unlike the Amish, Hutterite communities generally accept mechanized farm equipment and modern agricultural technology while maintaining communal ownership and a plain, non-electrified domestic lifestyle in many colonies.
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Group TypeSourced to the subject's own accountReligious communal subculture 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountNorth America (Prairie provinces of Canada and the northern Great Plains of the United States) 1 Population EstimateSourced to the subject's own account Primary LanguageSourced to the subject's own accountHutterite German (Hutterisch) and English 1 Subsistence ModeSourced to the subject's own accountCommunal, collectively owned large-scale agriculture and livestock operations (Hutterite colonies), a distinctive and well-documented economic organization among Anabaptist groups. 1 Sources
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