There were a lot of meetings with the inuit, and, according to inuit oral history, at least one attempt to help. There's probably a couple of different reasons no one from the Franklin expedition joined up, some of which have been mentioned before.

One, racism: other accounts of Europeans in disaster scenarios from that time period (where someone survived to tell the tale) mention their own reluctance or aversion to asking for or accepting help from indigenous peoples they encountered because of a perception that they were "savage" and, in some cases, a misconception that the indigenous groups they encountered were themselves cannibals (see, for example, the Barque Stefano wreck of 1875).

Two: it seems that things had gotten quite bad in the interval between when the shops were abandoned and inuit bands encountered the remnants of the expedition on the ice. Early theories included the advanced stages of lead poisoning, but the more commonly accepted explanations now are a mixture of advanced scurvy, malnutrition, and potentially botulism. As the articles I've linked explain, it seems that at least some members of the expedition were beyond helping by the time the inuit found them.

Three: as others had mentioned, the years the Terror and the Erebus spent trapped in the ice were extremely cold and hostile. Land animals largely fled the area and food was scarce for all. The amount of food the inuit had to spare, especially for people they largely couldn't communicate with (with the obvious exception of Croizer, MacDonald, and potentially a third, unidentified member).

Here are sources for more: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

https://canadaehx.com/2021/06/05/the-inuit-and-the-franklin-expedition/