Vanessa Short Bull


Vanessa Short Bull is an American beauty pageant titleholder who served as both Miss South Dakota USA and Miss South Dakota.

Personal life

Vanessa Short Bull was born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota to Thomas and Darlene Short Bull. Short Bull is an Oglala Sioux Native American, a descendant of Ghost Dance leader Arnold Short Bull.
Her family is from the Pine Ridge Reservation, although she hasn't been living there since she was 6 and currently resides in Rapid City, South Dakota. She took ten years of ballet classes at New York City's Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Pageantry

Short Bull was the first Native American to have the title of Miss South Dakota, winning the title in 2002.