Editing Vermillion, South Dakota (section)

== Murals ==
Vermillion has five murals in the downtown business district, three of which are community-based. All three community murals are painted on the Coyote Twin Theater building; the first was painted in 2017, the second in 2019, and the third in 2020.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Vermillion Community Mural Project|url=https://www.vermculture.org/muralproject|access-date=2020-12-10|website=Vermillion Cultural Association|language=en-US}}</ref> The first mural, "Painting the Town", was designed as the first mural for the Vermillion Community Mural Project by Amber Hansen, a painting professor at the University of South Dakota.<ref>{{Cite web|title=USD Studio Art Professor Profile Amber Hansen|url=https://www.usd.edu/faculty-and-staff/Amber-Hansen|website=University of South Dakota {{!}} Amber Hansen}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

In 2019 and 2020, Reyna Hernandez ([[Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota]]) led the painting of two murals on the Coyote Twin Building that form a larger cohesive mural.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The Story Behind the Vermillion Community Mural Project|url=https://www.wearesouthdakota.com/humanities-culture/mural-story|access-date=2020-12-10|website=We Are South Dakota|language=en}}</ref> Hernandez, of the Yankton-Sioux Tribe, was assisted by Elizabeth Skye ([[Standing Rock Sioux Tribe]]). Inkpa Mani (Javier Lara-Ruiz<ref>{{cite news |last1=Liu |first1=Jasmine |title=Artist Resigns From Public Art Commission After Native Communities Raise Questions |url=https://hyperallergic.com/761417/inkpa-mani-resigns-from-project-amid-controversy/ |access-date=8 August 2024 |work=Hyperallergic |date=15 September 2022}}</ref>) led group discussions to help create imagery taken from [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] creation stories.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=30 July 2020|title=Credit Hour Interviews Artist Reyna Hernandez about Indigenous Media Representation|url=https://www.usd.edu/NEWS/2020/CREDIT-HOUR-INTERVIEWS-ARTIST-REYNA-HERNANDEZ-ABOUT-INDIGENOUS-MEDIA-REPRESENTATION|access-date=December 10, 2020|website=University of South Dakota|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623052745/https://www.usd.edu/NEWS/2020/CREDIT-HOUR-INTERVIEWS-ARTIST-REYNA-HERNANDEZ-ABOUT-INDIGENOUS-MEDIA-REPRESENTATION|archive-date=23 June 2021}}</ref>