It would seem to make a difference to the 3 Indigenous software engineers who wrote the article.
As you can see, there are more than three people in this thread alone who feel strongly in the opposite.
It seems to me the right things to do would be for the ASF to reach out to some Apache organizations to ask their thoughts, and for the article authors to approach (or create, if necessary) similar representative groups to make a formal statement of position.
What does the vast majority of Native Americans (ca three million people), or specifically the members of Apache tribes, think?
Are you done ridiculing and dismissing people yet, or are you still thirsty for more fighting and nothing else?