National Geographic Channel: Judy Hofer

Mary-Ann Kirkby Dept: Hutterite Judy Hofer picks carrots at King Ranch Hutterite colony in Montana in an undated image from the National Geographic Channel. The TV series American Colony: Meet the Hutterites is being condemned by many with connections to the faith, including author Mary-Ann Kirkby, above with her son Levi, who spent the first 10 years of her life on the Fairholme Hutterite colony near Portage la Prairie. BEN SHANK / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "The program was intended or promised to be a factual, accurate documentary, and this, of course, is nothing like it," said Mary-Ann Kirkby, author of I Am Hutterite and mary-Ann Kirkby and her son, Levi. HILARY SCHAAP / THE CANADIAN PRESS ARCHIVES Enlarge Image PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. -- A Saskatchewan author is condemning the National Geographic Channel for a TV documentary series they broadcast depicting the Hutterite culture from a sect in Montana. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.