Omishto's relationship with Ama

By reading the first part of Power, we see that Omishto has a strong relationship with Ama. But what we also find is that she has an internal struggle with herself between the old, tribal, magical ways and the new, American ways. Because she goes to school, she knows things like logic and reason. She learns not to believe in magic. But I still think she's holding onto the old ways. This is where her relationship with Ama comes in. Ama never went to high school, so she wasn't taught things like reason that is forced on Omishto. But Ama is not completely "old world" either. Omishto says that Ama claims there needs to be a balance in between the old ways and the new ways. I think this is part of the connection that Omishto feels with Ama. She is not ready to completely give up the ways of her tribe, and Ama represents a way to be in the middle. Omishto also says how her mother is completely Americanized even to the point that she converted to Christianity. Omishto seems to resent this and says that she doesn not want to be like her mother. Maybe her connection to Ama is that Ama has not completely let go of her culture, and Omishto respects that because it is different from her mother. Ama becomes a new mother figure because Omishto has a strained relationship with her own.