Hutterites (German: Hutterer) are an ethno-religious group that is a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the sixteenth century.

Since the death of their namesake Jakob Hutter in 1536, the beliefs of the Hutterites, especially living in a community of goods and absolute pacifism, have resulted in hundreds of years of diaspora in many countries.

Nearly extinct by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Hutterites found a new home in North America.

Over one hundfred and twenty-five years their population grew from four hundred to around forty-two thousand.

Today, most Hutterites live in Western Canada and the upper Great Plains of the U.S.