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Schmiedeleut  

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  • One of the three distinct branches of Hutterites, an Anabaptist group that formed the oldest successful communal group in North America, is the Schmiedeleut (smith's people). Its members became a distinct subgroup after leaving the Ukraine for South Dakota and founding the Bon Homme colony in 1874. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Schmiedeleut]

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