Nyngan High School captains and AECG junior students proudly represented their school at the Bogan Shires NAIDOC Week opening ceremony on Wongaibon country on Monday alongside school principal Benn Wright.
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Ford the first time the students performed the national anthem in the Ngiyampaa language, which is the first language of the Wongaibon Country.
"It was very special and very exciting," Mr Wright said.
"We're very proud to have been able to sing the National Anthem for the first time in the Ngiyampaa language."
Mr Wright said the Aboriginal Lands Council had been working towards transferring the National Anthem into the Ngiyampaa Language and had finished the process in time of the ceremony.
"The Aboriginal Lands Council and the AECG do a lot of amazing work with our students and within the community and we are very thankful to them," he said.
Schools across the bogan shire celebrated on campuses also by simultaneously raising their flags during the welcome to country.
The NAIDOC Week opening ceremony welcomed the commencement of the annual NAIDOC Week celebrations which focuses largely around celebrating, acknowledging and learning about our first nations peoples culture.
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