What is Matariki?

Questions:

1. What is Matariki and what are all its other names?
Matariki is the group of stars also they called seven sisters and Pleiades too.

2. How did Maori use it in more traditional times, like when they were travelling the Pacific or trying to survive in early Aotearoa hundreds of years ago before Pakeha came here?
They use it in the last few days of May every year and the ne year.

3. What significance does it have in other cultures from history?
It has been known since to cultures all around the world, including the Maori and Australian Aborigines, the Persians, Chinese, The Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee of North America.