Originally, the Five Tribes lived in the Southeast. The Choctaw and Chickasaw lived in what is now Mississippi. The Creek and Cherokee lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the Seminole lived in Florida. Because of the desire of settlers to take this land, the federal government removed these tribes and sent them to Indian Territory. The tribes traveled hundreds of miles over land and by boat to make it to their destination.
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps established during Joseph Stalin's long reign as dictator of the Soviet Union. The word “Gulag” is an acronym for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration