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Bolivia | The Mennonites of Manitoba (25 images)

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Roughly 150 kilometers northeast of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the Manitoba colony's 2,000 residents maintain the lifestyle of their Dutch ancestors, who established the first Mennonite settlement in Russia in 1789. Since then, Old Colony Mennonites have moved throughout the New World in search of arable land and cultural sovereignty: first to Manitoba in the late 19th century, then to Mexico in the mid-1920s, after Canada required their children to attend government-approved schools.
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