Dzä:hgo:wa:’ oënö’ or Pigeon Dance originated as a dance in honor of the passenger pigeon, which is now extinct. Passenger pigeons provided an important food source for Haudenosaunee communities, until settlers overhunted and exterminated the species by the early twentieth century. The dance is related to Robin Dance because both honor birds, but it is ore closely linked to the other food-oriented dances like Corn Dance and Shake-the-Bush.