sentences:  He was also the Founding Chair, of the Department of Medicine at the University of Hawaii John Burns School of Medicine in 1966.He was the convener for the 1993 Kanaka Maoli People's Tribunal, which documented U.S. abuses throughout all major islands in great detail before an international panel of judges, and the primary organizer of Ka Pākaukau (literally, "the Table"), an ongoing forum for dialogue surrounding Kānaka Maoli sovereignty and Hawaiian independence.Richard Kekuni Akana was born March 11, 1925 to Marguerite Nameleonalani Piltz and James Keli‘ikauahi Akana.