and were the first nations loving to the europeans?
They were at first. A lot of settlers would have died without them.
200k - 2 million. show me the records
An interesting request given that you haven't provided any sources for your statements. Five minutes on the Internet seems to confirm 200,000 as the low end of the estimates for Canada (sample link below). Just for interest I'll add that if you read the footnotes in Charles Mann's book "1491" the (much disputed by most academics) upper estimates for the indigenous population of the Americas prior to contact with European diseases is 200,000,000. It's almost guaranteed to be wrong, but just the fact that people who have spent a lifetime studying the subject can defend this statement against their colleagues. is food for thought.
They were at first. A lot of settlers would have died without them.
An interesting request given that you haven't provided any sources for your statements. Five minutes on the Internet seems to confirm 200,000 as the low end of the estimates for Canada (sample link below). Just for interest I'll add that if you read the footnotes in Charles Mann's book "1491" the (much disputed by most academics) upper estimates for the indigenous population of the Americas prior to contact with European diseases is 200,000,000. It's almost guaranteed to be wrong, but just the fact that people who have spent a lifetime studying the subject can defend this statement against their colleagues. is food for thought.
https://www.google.com/search?q=first+nations+population+in+16th+century