'Seen-By-Her-Nation') is an American (Hunkpapa) educator and academic administrator who served as the president of Sitting Bull College from 2006 to 2024.
Vermillion was born and raised in the small town of Kennel, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
[2][3] She was raised 1.5 miles away from the Missouri River and used to collect water and nearby wild grapes with her grandparents using a horse-drawn wagon.
[3] Upon high school graduation, Vermillion began working for the Standing Rock Housing Corporation where she transcribed a dictaphone.
[5] Vermillion worked as an elementary teacher in the Fort Yates School District for fourteen years.
[5] Starting in 1999, she served as the vice president of operations for seven years while completing a Ph.D. in teaching and learning in higher education from UND in 2005.
[2] In 2005, following Ron His Horse Is Thunder's election to tribal chairman, Vermillion succeeded him as the interim president of Sitting Bull College.