Why do you suppose trying to develop a good relationship with the Native Americans was so important for France? Explain your answer as thoroughly as possible.

tbh i think that it was important to have a good realationshiop with the native andance because during that period it was better for you to have a lot of allies on your side rather then they being agasnt u. Good realationshipcan lead to trade routs, spread of food people and reliogion and others.

Explanation:

president thomas jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the louisiana purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an american presence in this territory before britain and other european powers

salmon were fished in puget sound.