Jonathan S. Tomhave

M.C. University of Washington, B.A. California Baptist University, Riverside, CA

jst1066@u.washington.edu, jonathan@jnh1066.com

Jonathan S. Tomhave is doctoral candidate currently plugging away on his dissertation, Cameras and Indians: Performance and Resistance by First Nations Actors in mainstream and alternative film (working title). Among other things, Jonathan is also a filmmaker whose film Half of Anything is remarkably still screening around the world. A trailer of this film can be accessed either at www.jnh1066.com or at www.native-voices.org. In addition, Jonathan is also currently working on two documentaries. The first where Jonathan is the director and lead editor is with Sara Deer, Terreane Derrick, and Christina Entrekin on sexual violence in Indian Country and is currently in pre-production. The second project where Jonathan is the lead editor is with Sherman Alexie, Larry Estes and the Hydrocephalus Association which is examining the impact of hydrocephalus on the lives of many people around the world and how it has become in many ways, a forgotten condition. Furthermore, Jonathan is also working a number of papers ranging from diabetes, identity, and holistics (with Selina Mohammad) to expanding the conversation away from John Ford’s The Searchers and Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves to films (working title, The Search for the Dancing Wolf is Over: Moving Beyond The Searchers and Dances with Wolves) made by Natives and non-natives in the 21 st century.