Editing North Dakota (section)

===Germans from Russia===
{{See also|Germans from Russia}}

Ethnic Germans who had settled in Russia for several generations since the reign of [[Catherine the Great]] grew dissatisfied in the nineteenth century because of economic problems and because of the revocation of religious freedoms for [[Russian Mennonite|Mennonites]] and [[Hutterite]]s, in particular the revocation of exemption from military service in 1871. Most Mennonites and Hutterites migrated to America in the late 1870s. By 1900, about 100,000 had immigrated to the U.S., settling primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, [[Kansas]], and [[Nebraska]]. The south-central part of North Dakota became known as "the German-Russian triangle". By 1910, about 60,000 ethnic Germans from Russia lived in Central North Dakota. These individuals were Lutherans, Mennonites, Hutterites and Roman Catholics who had kept most of their German customs of the time when their ancestors immigrated to Russia. They were committed to agriculture. Traditional iron cemetery grave markers are a famous art form practiced by ethnic Germans.<ref>Elwyn B. Robinson, ''History of North Dakota'' (1966) pp. 285–87, 557</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/articles/newspapers/news/gilmour3.html |title=Germans from Russia Heritage Collection |publisher=Library.ndsu.edu |date=September 1, 2002 |access-date=September 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218092351/http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/articles/newspapers/news/gilmour3.html |archive-date=December 18, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>