American Indians were seen as “uncivilized,” so the Spanish tried to them.

assimilate

Explanation:  well, assimilate means to  adjust to something

so the spanish tried to assimilate them, making them adjust to something new like the customs of a culture or something like that so the american indians had to adjust to the customs of the spanish, how they look,  or how they act and so on  so the  american indians had to   resemble the spanish.

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.