Colonies
See also category: Hutterite communitiesThe mid-2004 location and number of the world's 483 Hutterite colonies:
- Canada (347)
- Dariusleut (142): Alberta (109); Saskatchewan (31); British Columbia (2)
- Schmiedeleut (105): Manitoba (105)
- Lehrerleut (99): Alberta (69); Saskatchewan (30)
- United States (134)
- Schmiedeleut (69): South Dakota (53); Minnesota (9); North Dakota (7)
- Lehrerleut (44): Montana (44)
- Dariusleut (21): Montana (15); Washington (5); Oregon (1)
- Japan (1)
- Dariusleut (1)
- Nigeria (1)
- Schmiedeleut (1)
The Japanese Hutterite community does not consist of Hutterites of European descent, but ethnic Japanese who have adopted the same way of life and are recognized as an official colony. The inhabitants of this colony speak neither English nor German.
In similar fashion, a "neo-" Hutterite group, called the Bruderhof, was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold. Arnold forged links with the North American Hutterites in the 1930s, continuing until 1990 when the Bruderhof were excommunicated due to a number of religious and social differences.
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Famous quotes containing the word colonies:
“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“So that’s our new flag. The thing we’ve been fighting for—thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.”
—Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)
“I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)