American Colony: Meet the Hutterites
Meet the Hutterites--a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world. King Colony is made up of 59 people and they are almost all related. This family lives together, works together, and worships God together, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for their entire lives. And, like any family, this one doesn't always agree. Most of the colony is holding tight to the age-old traditions of their ancestors, while others are flirting with modern society.
- 2012-2012
- 1 season
- National Geographic Channel
- Reality
- TV-PG
Meet the Hutterites--a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world. King Colony is made up of 59 people and they are almost all related. This family lives together, works together, and worships God together, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for their entire lives. And, like any family, this one doesn't always agree. Most of the colony is holding tight to the age-old traditions of their ancestors, while others are flirting with modern society.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2012
Episode 1
Harvest Party Scandal
46 mins
NGC introduces the King Colony and their way of life. Today, unlike their ancestors, they have sophisticated farming equipment, and are constantly evolving and struggling to find balance yet preserve their treasured traditions.
Episode 2
The Shunning
Tue, Jun 5, 2012 45 mins
A visit from the elders in Canada shakes King Colony as they mete out the Hutterites' worst punishment, shunning, to Bertha and Rita, meaning that no one in the colony can speak to or associate with them even though they still live there.
Episode 3
Rockin' Road Trip
Tue, Jun 12, 2012 46 mins
The King Colony's young people, including Claudia, Clinton and Lisa, go to a wedding of their distant cousins in Canada to see kinfolks and explore the world outside the colony, and their secondary goal is finding a girlfriend for Wesley.
Episode 4
Battle of the Sexes
Tue, Jun 19, 2012 45 mins
Claudia upsets tradition at the colony by risking punishment to join in the men's outdoor work instead of staying inside and cleaning and cooking with the other females, and everyone there has a strong opinion about what she is doing.
Episode 5
Shoot to Kill
Tue, Jun 26, 2012
Episode 6
ER Bound
Mon, Jul 2, 2012 46 mins
Glimpse a rite of passage for the Hutterite women as 17-year-old Tammy prepares for her very first cook and bake week.
Episode 7
Show Me the Money!
Tue, Jul 10, 2012 45 mins
Claudia and the girls sneak off to the slaughterhouse for a secret sewing session and craft dresses with bright colors and leopard prints.
Episode 8
Breaking the Law
Tue, Jul 17, 2012 46 mins
Toby has to work around the clock caring for the new-born calves and he needs some help, but Clinton is not ready to take any responsibility even with the colony's financial situation at stake, while Claudia is crushed after Bertha chooses to spend time w [sic].
Episode 9
We Are Not a Cult
Tue, Jul 24, 2012 44 mins
The outside world is creeping into the lives of the colony members as Wesley seeks to dispel long-held Hutterite stereotypes and Claudia contemplates applying to college and leaving the colony for good. After Wesley gives a tour of the colony to some ill-informed young adults he makes it his mission to spread the truth about Hutterite beliefs and traditions. Wesley decides that giving a presentation at the local university would be a good start to spread awareness to open-minded young adults. Meanwhile, Claudia and Lori contemplate their futures and their desire to attend college. After a tour of the local university, Claudia and Lori take home applications but vow to keep it a secret because the ramifications for going away to college would be severe-they would have to leave the colony and make a lot of people very angry.
Episode 10
Barnburners
Tue, Jul 31, 2012 45 mins
When the calving barn goes up in flames, Wesley and his cousins jeopardize their upcoming requests to get baptized and when Claudia hears from the college she applied to, her world starts to change.