FEATURED ESSAY
CONVENING: RELATIONAL FUTURES
October 12–13, 2026
This two-day convening brings together artists, scholars, cultural practitioners, and community leaders to examine Indigenous knowledge systems as epistemic frameworks for reshaping institutional practice.
Through panel conversations and dialogue sessions, participants will explore relational caretaking as a guiding principle for museums and public institutions, one rooted in Indigenous understandings of responsibility, reciprocity, and stewardship across communities, lands, and knowledge systems.
Relational Futures takes place across two University of Minnesota venues: the Weisman Art Museum and Coffman Memorial Union Theater. Please note the location listed for each program as you move between sessions and activities.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12
10 AM–5 PM | Weisman Art Museum is Open
Explore “Merciless”: Indigenous Lands Since 1776 and drop into Open Studio for a parfleche-inspired artmaking activity developed by Melanie Tallmadge Sainz.
12–4:30 PM | Guided Exhibition Tours
Tour Times: 12 PM · 1:10 PM · 2:20 PM · 3:30 PM
Join WAM Student and Professional Guides for inquiry-based tours of 'Merciless'. No RSVP required; meet at the Weisman Art Museum front desk at least five minutes before your preferred tour.
5 PM | Check-in begins at Coffman Theater
6 PM | Welcome
Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez | Director, Weisman Art Museum
Opening Prayer
LeMoine Lapointe | Program Director, Healthy Nations Program, Minneapolis American Indian Center
6:10 PM | Keynote Address
Dr. heather ahtone, “A Love Letter to my Ancestors”
Coffman Theater
While being interviewed about the exhibition WINIKO: Life of an Object, which opened in September 2021, Dr. heather ahtone described the exhibition as “a love letter to my ancestors.” The unscripted phrase resonated with her as an expression of much of her career—as an art historian, museum professional, and Choctaw/Chickasaw person. In this keynote, ahtone will share some of the motivations and continuing ambitions that guide her work to create space within museums for Indigenous people, reflecting on the possibilities of working for Indigenous cultures and allowing Indigenous art, knowledge, and philosophies to serve as guiding principles.
About the Speaker
heather ahtone, PhD, is Director of Curatorial Affairs at First Americans Museum (FAM) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and descendant of strong Choctaw women. She has worked in the Native arts community since 1993, and is recognized as a curator, arts writer, and researcher who has produced numerous exhibitions and related catalogues. She is known for innovatively working with Indigenous communities. customary cultural knowledge, and contemporary art. She serves on numerous boards and in professional capacities that advocate on behalf of Indigenous knowledge, museum practice, and scholarship in the field, including current service on the American Art Journal editorial board, the Association of Art Museum Curators, and as past-President for the Native American Art Studies Association. She has undergraduate degrees in Creative Writing and Printmaking and completed her education with a doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Art History, Anthropology, Native American Studies).
7 - 8 PM | Opening Reception
Weisman Art Museum
With appetizers and refreshments from Native Harvest, guests are invited to gather, connect, and explore Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776.
Drop into the Target Gallery to create your own parfleche-inspired keepsake while learning about Indigenous traditions of making rawhide containers, known as caaha in Ho-Chunk and tȟahá in Lakota. Used to carry food, medicines, supplies, and personal belongings, these functional objects also reflect the creativity, knowledge, and cultural traditions of their makers.
Activity developed by Melanie Tallmadge Sainz, artist and educator,The Art of Melanie Sainz, Founding Director, Little Eagle Arts Foundation
About the Artist
Melanie Tallmadge Sainz is an artist, cultural arts educator, and enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. Raised in the Wisconsin Dells area, her practice encompasses traditional porcupine quillwork, mixed-media mosaics, and work with locally sourced natural materials. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Heard Museum, and the Eiteljorg Museum, with public artworks located throughout Wisconsin.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
8–9:30 AM | Check-in + Breakfast
Coffman Theater
Check in for the second day of the convening at the front of the theater. Enjoy breakfast by Native Harvest. Coffee and tea service provided by the U of M Campus Club throughout the day.
10 AM–5 PM | Weisman Art Museum is Open
Explore “Merciless”: Indigenous Lands Since 1776 and drop into Open Studio for a parfleche-inspired artmaking activity developed by Melanie Tallmadge Sainz.
9:30 - 10 AM | Welcome + Grounding
Welcome Remarks
Kendra Greendeer, PhD | Ihlenfeld Curator for Collaborative and Community Exhibitions
Grounding with Josie Hoffman
Josie Hoffman is a mixed-media visual artist, aerialist, powwow dancer, and emerging curator of Grand Portage Ojibwe and European descent based in Minneapolis. In 2020 she graduated with her BFA in studio arts at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. In 2021, she worked with Native Strength Revolution—a Native led organization dedicated to making mind-body practices accessible to Indigenous communities across Turtle Island—where she received yoga teacher training which informs her practice as an aerial arts instructor. Since 2018, she has been teaching aerial arts across the twin cities at various studios, pop-up community events and workshops in her tribal community in Grand Portage. Over the years, she has shown her art work in various group exhibitions, while dabbling in curation when she then went on to working with Emerging Curators Institute and All My Relations Arts Gallery to curate Niimiwin; a group exhibition of Minnesota-based Indigenous artists which explored how movement manifests within our bodies, our connection to the land, and our relationships within the community. She is currently in her final year of working towards her Master's in Fine Arts with the Institute of American Indian Art where she is making artwork and writing about dance, aerial arts, beadwork, Ojibwe storytelling, and Indigenous feminism.
10–11 AM | Panel: Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Exhibition Development
Coffman Theater
Artists Marlena Myles, Natchez Beaulieu, and Missy Whiteman, whose work is featured in Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, will reflect on the development of the exhibition, their artistic practices, and the Indigenous knowledge systems and methodologies that inform their work. The conversation will consider how contemporary artistic practice can address the enduring impacts of colonial land policies while asserting the resilience, continuity, and sovereignty of Indigenous nations.
Speakers:
Marlena Myles
Natchez Beaulieu
Missy Whiteman
Moderator:
Kendra Greendeer, Ph.D.— Exhibition Curator, Weisman Ihlenfeld Curator for Collaborative and Community Exhibitions
About the Speakers
Natchez Beaulieu, Waabigwanikwe (Flower Woman), is an Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation, born and raised in South Minneapolis. She is a full-time artist, teaching art and working on commissioned projects in her community. Her art journey began with mural making through a group called Neighborhood Safe Art. During her summers in high school, she learned under Marilyn Lindstrom’s mentorship, creating many outdoor acrylic murals throughout the Twin Cities. Recently, she’s been focused on mosaics to showcase her Ojibwe floral designs and Indigenous knowledge. In collaboration with organizations in the Native American Community, she has completed several projects, two of which are on the American Indian Cultural Corridor including the mosaic on the medicine garden at the Native American Community Clinic. Over two summers, she collaborated with the Good Space to engage Indigenous youth on a mosaic mural called Zoongidewin in the Little Earth Community. In 2017, she worked with students in the Osseo and Minneapolis Public Schools Indian Education programs, creating culturally significant art. During the summer of 2019, she was hired by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to facilitate a youth mural project with ten young women for The Hearts Of Our People exhibition.
Missy Whiteman (Northern Arapahoe and Kickapoo) is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, producer and multi-media artist. Missy understands her work to be a voice for her ancestors, their stories and ancestral wisdom. Her late father, Ernest Whiteman, influenced her work with the gift of artistic vision and practice of art as a ceremony.
Many of Missy’s films have screened on international, national and local venues such as Walker Art Center, National Geographic All Roads Festival and Bilabo Spain. Missy is a current recipient of the McKnight Fellowship for Media Arts, a Forecast Public Art Mid-Career grant and is the alumni of The Sundance Native Lab Fellowship and Jerome Fellowship for her short film project The Coyote Way: Going Back Home. Her current project, The Coyote Way X: Expanded Cinema is a multidimensional cinematic experience of The Coyote Way: Going Back Home short film intertwined with performance, live score, video mapping and 360/VR.
Marlena Myles, Spirit Lake Dakota, Mohegan, and Muscogee artist, is based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Myles’s practice centers on Indigenous history, language, and the inclusion of both within modernity. By suggesting a continued Dakota culture that is illustrated within the digital sphere, Myles is portraying Native people in a space that others do not expect to witness Indigenous people and in a particular medium–as modern people utilizing the same technologies. Some of her most recent work includes an augmented reality installation, Spirit Door, at the Franconia Sculpture Park and a community cradleboard project with Dakota County Library. She is also creating new work for the Weisman’s upcoming exhibition, Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, which will open in September 2026.
Moderator
Kendra Greendeer, Ph.D., examines Indigenous museum practices alongside relations to land and materiality through an aesthetic emphasis on “rematriation,” an Indigenous women-led initiative to return to a state of pre-settler-colonial balance and relationship with those that allow for Indigenous livingness. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Dr. Greendeer serves as the Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Greendeer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, and a B.F.A. in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has assisted with and curated numerous exhibitions and community-based projects centered on Indigenous art and history, including Homelands: Mnë’nának, Māēnāēwah, Tešišik at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Native New York at the National Museum of the American Indian-New York, and the upcoming ‘Merciless’: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, an exhibition opening at the Weisman Art Museum in September 2026.
11–11:15 AM | BREAK
11:15 AM–12:15 PM | Panel: Food Sovereignty, Land Stewardship & Relational Care
Coffman Theater
Food systems and land-based practices are expressions of cultural knowledge, governance, and community care. This conversation brings together farmers, food sovereignty practitioners, and cultural leaders to explore how Indigenous foodways, seed keeping, land stewardship, and cultural practice sustain community wellbeing and ecological futures.
Speakers:
Benjamin Shendo
Jessika Greendeer
Moderator
Jessica Garcia Fritz
About the Speakers
Benjamin Shendo is from Jemez and Cochiti Pueblos in New Mexico and is the founder of Indigenous Connection 1696, LLC, based in Jemez Springs. Through classes and workshops, Shendo creates opportunities to reconnect people of all ages with cultural traditions through movement, creative expression, and hands-on learning. His work encompasses hoop dancing, capoeira, lacrosse, leatherwork, culinary arts, and other cultural and artistic practices, with a vision of bringing these learning experiences to schools and communities throughout New Mexico.
Jessika Greendeer is a Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member from Baraboo, WI and a member of the Deer Clan. Her work is growing and protecting our seed relatives, encouraging food sovereignty practices and regenerating the soils of our Earth. This has taken shape in many places and communities, including as a tribal legislator, a farm director, as the Agricultural Division Manager for her nation, and as a garden mentor within her nation’s organic community gardens.
About the Moderator
Jessica Garcia Fritz (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, the Design Justice liaison for architecture in the College of Design, an Affiliate Faculty for American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, and co-director of LAB-OR. As a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (Itazipco), her cross-disciplinary teaching and research challenge architecture’s role in nation-state building through specification writing and the extraction of material territories in indigenous lands. Her research on specification writing has been published in the Technology Architecture and Design Journal (TAD) and two editions of Building Knowledge, Construction Histories (CRC Press). Recent publications include “The Organizers Guide to Architecture Education” a coauthored book that reorients architecture education toward a stewardship of the planetary commons as well as a book review and conversation with Oceti Sakowin writers in SAIL.
12:15–1:30 PM | LUNCH BREAK
Weisman Art Museum
Enjoy lunch from Native Harvest at the Weisman Art Museum, with time to connect with fellow attendees and explore Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776.
12:45–1:25 PM | Guided Walking Tour
Weisman Art Museum + University of Minnesota Campus
Join a WAM Professional Guide for a walking tour exploring connections between works in 'Merciless': Indigenous Lands Since 1776 and Dyani White Hawk’s public artwork, Through the Pursuit of Understanding Our Connectivity, We Care for Our World, installed on the University of Minnesota campus in 2025.
Designed as a midday experience during Relational Futures and open to the public. Meet at the WAM front desk by 12:40 PM.
1:30–2:30 PM | Panel: Relational Caretaking—Water, Health & Community Wellbeing
This conversation explores how practices of water protection, public health, cultural knowledge, and Indigenous stewardship model forms of relational caretaking that extend beyond institutional walls. Panelists will consider how caring for water, land, and community wellbeing can inform cultural practice and offer important lessons for institutions seeking more accountable, reciprocal, and community-centered forms of engagement.
Speakers:
Fern Renville
Jill Greendeer, PhD
Brenda Owen, PhD, MS, BS, AD, RN
Moderator:
Graci Horne
About the Speakers
Jill Greendeer, PhD: As a Hocak hinuk (woman), nani (mother), sister, and relative, Jill's life purpose resides in advocating for Indigenous community healing and empowerment in research, education, and healthcare. Jill’s life work and lived experience has prepared her for this role. She has experience working in non-profit, academic, corporate, and clinical settings within Indigenous communities and White-centric spaces. She has lived experience as an Indigenous woman in both urban and rural environments enhancing her diverse worldview and give her a strong sense of grounded Indigenous voice to pursue her life purpose of helping to heal and empower Indigenous people.
Her experiences pursuing a PhD at the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing as an Indigenous matriarch allowed her to develop a heightened awareness of systemic racism and oppression. She recognizes systemic racism and oppression are deeply embedded within healthcare and academia.
Far too often, she sees non-Indigenous people benefit at Indigenous communities’ expense when they are rewarded as leaders and advocates of Indigenous inclusion, diversity and equity. They often publish research articles and misrepresent, misinterpret, and misguide their ‘findings’ within Indigenous communities with adverse impacts on Indigenous communities.
This experience gave her a deeper call to action and sense of urgency of the need to stand her ground, speak her truth, share her Indigenous lived experience, and find comfort in uncomfortable spaces, conversations, and initiatives. This call to action led to the development of her social justice enterprise, Indigenous Visions Research and Wellness LLC, whose mission is healing and empowerment through Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous representation, and Indigenous visibility.
She understands that we all have tremendous work to do and cannot accomplish this alone, everyone has a role to uphold social justice to generate systems change. She continues to network with others who value diverse Indigenous narratives and support this important call to action.
Fern Naomi Renville is a St. Paul-based storyteller, teaching artist, and enrolled citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate with a deep interest and expertise in integrating weaving and storytelling traditions as land-based learning opportunities for students of all ages and backgrounds. Fern recently completed a Native Artist Residency at the Minnesota Historical Society (investigating the forgotten role of the nettle fiber in Dakota weaving and material culture) and enjoys sharing this knowledge in the work of restoring access and relationships to ancestral plant teachers in Dakota homelands. Currently, Fern is the Bill YellowRobe Playwright-in-Residence at Sound Theatre in Seattle, Washington; appearing onstage in in the upcoming Mni Giizhik Theater production of Marci Rendon’s play ‘Sweet Revenge’, and a leader of Minnesota Humanities Center’s Learning-from-Place Bdote tour of Dakota sacred sites.
Brenda Owen, PhD, MS, BS, AD, RN, is a Ho-Chunk/Welsh nurse, scholar, and researcher whose work examines Indigenous health and wellbeing through the interconnected relationships among land, culture and settler colonialism. Her scholarship explores the pathways through which historical and ongoing colonial structures shape Indigenous health, as well as the importance of understanding land, culture, and environmental justice as determinants of health.
Owen has contributed to research developing frameworks for understanding the embodiment of historical trauma and the settler colonial determinants of Indigenous health. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison/Teejop, she has also served as a project assistant and guide for the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour, which centers the historic and contemporary relationships between Indigenous peoples and the lands on which the university is situated.
About the Moderator
Graci Horne hails from Bde Ota Othúnwe, MniSota Makoce (Mpls, MN). Horne is a Mother, Multidisciplinary Dakota Artist, Indigenous Puppeteer, and Indigenous Feminist. Her people are the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and the Standing Rock Nation. She holds a Bachelor's in Museum Studies and an MFA in Studio Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM—and is currently a Ph.D. student in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.
Horne's artistic work blends pop culture, Indigenous feminism, environmental justice, and social and political themes. As a full-time community artist, she leads workshops for audiences ranging from five to one hundred and also works as an educator, independent curator, and performer.
2:30 – 2:45 PM | BREAK
2:45–3:45 PM | Conversation: Sovereignty in Storytelling
Join Cliff Fragua (Jemez Pueblo), Weisman Art Museum’s Native American Artist-in-Residence, in conversation with Juan Lucero (Isleta Pueblo), the residency’s guest curator, for a discussion exploring storytelling as an expression of Indigenous sovereignty. Drawing from their collaborative work through the residency and Fragua’s forthcoming exhibition, they will reflect on the responsibilities of artists and curators in shaping narrative, carrying cultural knowledge, and creating space for Indigenous people to tell their own stories. Together, they will consider storytelling not only as a means of remembering the past, but as an act of self-determination that shapes the future.
Speakers:
Cliff Fragua
Juan Lucero
About the Speakers
Artist Cliff Fragua (Jemez Pueblo), born in 1955 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a sculptor working primarily in stone, as well as bronze and glass. He is currently the Weisman Art Museum’s Native American Artist-in-Residence (NA AiR). Among his most significant works is a sculpture commissioned by the State of New Mexico for the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Fragua lives and maintains his studio in Jemez Pueblo.
Juan Lucero (he/him) is Southern Tiwa from Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico, currently based in the Twin Cities. He is an independent curator and advocate for Native art and artists, with a career in the Native arts and museum field dating back to 2005. Juan currently serves as Program Officer for Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships at the Terra Foundation for American Art and as guest curator of Seeds of Sovereignty: Stones of Survival at the Weisman Art Museum, where he also coordinates the Native American Artist-in-Residence program. He has curated and co-curated exhibitions at MIA and Colby College Museum of Art. He holds a BA in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma.
3:45 – 4 PM | BREAK
4 - 5 PM | Panel: Practicing Sovereignty—Museums, Land & Institutional Responsibility
What does it mean for a museum to move beyond acknowledgment and toward operationalizing Indigenous sovereignty within a land-grant university?
As the closing conversation of Relational Futures, this panel examines what institutional accountability requires when Indigenous sovereignty is understood not as an aspiration, but as a guiding framework for practice. Situated within the University of Minnesota—an institution established through the dispossession of Indigenous lands—this conversation brings together university leaders, museum practitioners, and Indigenous advisors working in close relationship with the Weisman Art Museum to consider the responsibilities that emerge from this history.
Panelists will explore how Indigenous knowledge systems can shape not only exhibitions and interpretation, but also institutional policy, governance, stewardship, and decision-making. Moving beyond acknowledgment, the conversation asks what it means to embed relationality, reciprocity, accountability, and Indigenous leadership into the ongoing practices of a land-grant university museum.
Speakers:
Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez
Kendra Greendeer, PhD
Kat Hayes, PhD
Ellen Holt-Werle, PhD
Moderator:
Joseph Bauerkemper, PhD
About the Speakers
Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez is Director of the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. She has been working for 30 years as a visual arts and museum professional. Her career started in Mexico City where she worked at various museums before she became director of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. She was General Deputy Director of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico before she moved to Puerto Rico to work at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, where she was the director from 2013 to 2021. Peña Gutiérrez is a Board Member of ICOM-US, and Co-Chair of their Programming Committee, she is also a member of the Risk Management Standing Committee of ICOM General.
Kendra Greendeer, PhD examines Indigenous museum practices alongside relations to land and materiality through an aesthetic emphasis on “rematriation,” an Indigenous women-led initiative to return to a state of pre-settler-colonial balance and relationship with those that allow for Indigenous livingness. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Dr. Greendeer serves as the Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Greendeer received her PhD in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, and a B.F.A. in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has assisted with and curated numerous exhibitions and community-based projects centered on Indigenous art and history, including Homelands: Mnë’nának, Māēnāēwah, Tešišik at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Native New York at the National Museum of the American Indian-New York, and the upcoming ‘Merciless’: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, an exhibition opening at the Weisman Art Museum in September 2026.
Katherine (Kat) Hayes, PhD is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Heritage Studies and Public History program at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She is trained as an archaeologist and received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley. Her earlier work explored sites of settler colonialism and its impacts on Indigenous and enslaved populations in the Northeast US. More recently she has focused on the ethics of archaeological knowledge production and of collecting. Her recent projects have facilitated repatriation of University and museum collections, investigated the historical production of heritage sites such as Historic Fort Snelling, and collaborated on interpretive multimedia exhibits on historical and archaeological sites.
Ellen Holt-Werle, MLIS is the Institutional Archivist in University Archives, part of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. As the Institutional Archivist, Ellen focuses on uncovering and increasing access to university collections that tell a fuller picture of university history, especially the voices and experiences of BIPOC students, staff, and faculty, and others underrepresented or excluded from our PWI institutional histories. Her interests include community archives, critical university history and critical archives, and colonial legacies of collections across universities and their attendant issues of description, access and use, and repatriation.
About the Moderator
Joseph Bauerkemper, PhD is a Professor and Director of the Tribal Sovereignty Institute at University of Minnesota Duluth. His scholarship, outreach, and teaching emphasize Indigenous governance, federal and state policy regarding American Indian nations, and Native literatures. He teaches across the department’s undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs; serves as lead facilitator for an intergovernmental collaboration providing training on Tribal-State relations for State of Minnesota departments and agencies; and provides governance programming for Tribal staff and administrators. Before joining the UMD faculty Joseph earned his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, enjoyed one year at the University of Illinois as a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies, and enjoyed two years at UCLA as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Joseph grew up in Austin, Texas and lives in Duluth within the 1854 treaty territory.
5 - 7 PM | Closing Reception
Weisman Art Museum
Gather at the Weisman following the final panel for a closing reception with appetizers and refreshments from Kafe421. The galleries and WAM Shop will be open for convening guests.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This project is also supported in part by an award from the Terra Foundation for American Art, The University of Minnesota Imagine Fund, and Kusske Design Initiative. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through an Operating Support grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Additional general operating support is generously provided by Ameriprise Financial.