Thanks. Do you have a reference for that handy? I collect things.
There’s an excellent book out there, 1491 by Charles Mann. It’s about the history of America (North and South) before Columbus.
You can also look up any good references on the Arawak and Carib peoples. The Caribs were native to S. America and were in the process of conquering the entire Caribbean.
When Columbus arrived they had already conquered the Lesser Antilles and were moving into the Greater Antilles. It’s probable they would have exterminated the Arawaks, the other tribe you should look up, in a century or two at most.
There is a whole PC issue about referring to people as cannibals, with the PC peeps frantically trying to spin away the evidence. But there’s all kinds of evidence the Caribs, like the Maori, ate people as a food source, not just ritualistically. Recently some scholars have been brave enough to address the history of almost all human groups as cannibals at one time or another.