The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)By: David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name. Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeatedif anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago.