a particular problem. Its environment affects the political system by inputs in the form of demands and support. Support is recognized as compliance to the decisions and actions made as a result of the demands. The members of the political system specific to the Oneida land Claim are the United States Justice Department, the Supreme Court, New York State and the county governments of Oneida and Madison. These are the groups with authority to force coercive action that are interrelating in this area. The Oneida Nation made the demand for the return of their ancestral homelands. Originally support for this issue was missing in that New York State did not follow the 1985 ruling that the Oneidas were entitled to their land as guaranteed in the Treaty of Canandaigua. There was a further lack of support on behalf of New York State to both the Treaty of Canandaigua and the Trade and Intercourse Act. The state chose not to accept the federal governments decisions requiring consent for any land deals with Indians and requiring that the Oneidas were given and assured their land. As a result the Oneidas have revised their demands to indicate that they want the federal government to play a more active role, through entering into litigation and terminating negotiations with the state, in seeing that the get what is rightfully theirs. A change in the political environment has led the Oneida Nation to expand the defendants to include approximately 20,000 individual and corporate landowners. The fact that the state no longer owns the lands in question is the change in environment that has caused this action. The United States government is concerned with fair treatment of all its citizens and that making sure federal law is respected, which in this case it clearly has not. Within the political system itself there is a difference of opinion between the Supreme Court/Justice Department and the New York State Government/county governments. Th...
