The Māori New Year has always been celebrated with the rise of the star cluster Matariki. It marks the beginning of the Aotearoa/Pacific New Year according to the lunar calendar. Click the links to find out more about Matariki from books, ebooks, videos and websites.
The Great Canoes in the Sky by 
Matariki: te whetū tapu o te tau by 
Puanga : star of the Māori New Year by 
Te kāhui o Matariki : contemporary Māori art of Matariki by Living by the Stars by Rangi Matamua
These are presented in te reo Māori. If you have an Instagram account you can view the videos with English subtitles using the IGTV stream of Rangi Matamua on Instagram
Image: Matariki star cluster by Nemiroff & Bonnell, 2002 [NASA]
