These stripes represented the 13 original colonies, or areas of land controlled by Great Britain that later became states.

这些宽条代表着最初的十三个殖民地，或由英国控制后来成为州的地区。

A bad thing to be known by in a society, where how much land you control directly correlated to how powerful and important you were.

在你控制多少土地直接关系到你的权力和重要性的社会，为人所知是件坏事。

Right. And then just to clarify, and then white European settlers came and they started seeing the burning of the land, controlled burning as like this magical, mystical kind of thing.

正确的。然后澄清一下，然后欧洲白人定居者来了，他们开始看到土地的燃烧，控制燃烧就像这种神奇的、神秘的东西。