Gaze & Surveillance

How are gaze and surveillance related to the “reading” of and reporting on American Indian literature and culture?

This reading, The Rhetoric of Empire by David Spurr, was an extremely dense reading for me to comprehend. So I am going to make the best judgments possible with only a little bit of understanding.
It seems like in the beginning, the people who gaze are not treated well and are slightly dehumanized by people of a higher standard. Also, it seems like the ‘blacks’ are constantly in surveillance are not receiving fair treatment, like they are invading everyone else’s lives. But most importantly there seem to be many different view points upon which the gaze rest, it comes in many unique ways and everyone is a new experience. There is a man that designed a prison in Joliet, Illinois and talked about a form of surveillance. The way it’s set up allows the person of power to use surveillance on anyone trapped inside and all prisoners inside Statesville are inadequate compared because they are always visible to the power. Being watched all the time is kind of like a futuristic ‘Big Brother’. When is it going to start and affect the whole nation? Look what’s it done towards the Native American culture. They are the rightful owners of America, but we keep pushing them to move onto smaller portions of land and furthermore onto reservations.