Where are the hutterites?

I don't seem to be able to find these hutterites on screen. Could you help me? Where are the hutterites at?

You'll recall that McCandless spent some time working for Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, SD. In fact, he worked there for two separate periods, in consecutive years, but the movie conflated the two periods into one.

While it's true that the majority of Hutterites live in the Canadian prairie provinces, they are also found in the US, mainly in Montana, North and South Dakota, and Washington state. There are 54 Hutterite colonies in South Dakota, and one is just outside of Carthage. Some of the young men working for Wayne were Hutterites, including possibly Zach Galifianakis' character -- the one who tells Chris how to cure meat, and the one with him in the barn when the FBI come roaring in to arrest Wayne.

So, without looking at the film again I can't tell you exactly when, but you'll see the three Hutterite guys in the Carthage scenes, probably around the barn or in the fields. They might be in the diner scene as well. Hutterite men wear simple work clothes, often overalls or else pants with suspenders. Married men have beards but trimmed fairly short, unlike most Amish.

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Are not the Hutterites the inhabitants of Oh-My-God Hotsprings?

I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.

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