Community
who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
Every Hutterite alive descends from a few hundred people.
The line nearly ended twice — reduced to a handful in Transylvania and Wallachia in the 1700s, then rebuilt in Ukraine, then emigrated to Dakota Territory in the 1870s, where fewer than half of about 1,265 arrivals chose communal life. The three Leut are named after the men who led those three groups.
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