Autobiography is written by that person, or biography which is about a person but written by someone else
I think that This is correct, the very reason for English settlers
coming to U.S is haphazard. They came here in search for religious
freedom from the British crown, and forced there way onto America. From
then on they have used the land, gotten sick and died, searched for
treasure destroyed the land and fought with Indians. The situations that
brought them to settle in America and their dissensions afterwords set
the building blocks for an extremely haphazard way of life. They killed
many Indians made treaties and broke them, mined the earth for oil and
made war with Brittan 2 times. Also their greed for money and
industrialization was also out of control. All in all the settlements of
early America, was forced due to oppression and was never gilded into a
thoughtful manner.
All this needs is specific detail which i can't do since i don't have your book or curriculum.
I’ve never read the story but you can say that forcing her to cut her hair makes her “fit in” with the other people more and takes away from her original culture since she doesn’t physically have anything left to show about her true culture. she might try to start hiding her culture now because people are making her think that she needs to. in the future, she might make her kids cut their hair too and they might make their kids cut their hair etc. etc. which then makes the tradition of long hair eventually fade away.