Dorothy Mae Stang was born on June 7, 1931 just outside of Dayton, Ohio in the rural community of Shiloh. The fourth of nine children in a white Catholic family of German and Irish descent, Dorothy joined the SIsters of Notre Dame de Namur at the age of 17. Her first post was in Phoenix, Arizona where she served as a school-teacher during the week and accompanied migrant farmworkers on the weekends. From there, Dorothy was sent to northeastern Brazil to work with poor farmers alongside four other Sisters of Notre Dame in 1966, and several years later she moved west with migrating subsistence farmers when the Brazilian government offered them plots of land in the Amazon region. Over time, the communities that Dorothy accompanied began to experience constant invasion by ranchers, corporate soy farmers, and loggers who were taking over the territory by force and destroying the forest, with the complicity of the government and the law. Moving six different times with the communities, Dorothy became a public figure who gave witness through her roles with the Pastoral Land Commission and the Sustainable Development Program, and through local, regional, and national advocacy. Though quiet, unassuming, and always willing to dialogue, this witness made Dorothy many enemies and, by the time of her death, there was a $17,500 price on her head. On February 12, Dorothy was shot to death because of her defense of local farmers against ranchers invading their lands. When Dorothy was confronted by her killers, she reached into her bag, pulled out her Bible, and opened it to read the Beatitudes to them. They began shooting just as she read, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Dorothy was seventy-three years old when she was killed. She is remembered for her deep love of God, Creation, and the people of the Brazilian Amazon, and she lives on in the communities who carry on her legacy of justice and Creation care.