[Book] Barrett, Nina, Russell T. Clement, Jeffrey Garrett, Janet Olson, and Peter Kiar. Deering Library: An Illustrated History. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2008. Print.
"The reference The Peoples of the Caribbean by Nicholas Saunders (first listing) is - in parts - available online and states on p272 "At the time of the European arrival, the Taino population ... lived a settled village life and practised agriculture." There may be more information on their source of animal proteins on other pages. You may want to check your library for this refence. --91.115.163.156 (talk) --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 18:17, 3 August 2010 (UTC)" From Humanities Help Desk For Cuba & Taíno.