Propel Syntax Error Received when using reserved keywords in table or column names
I found the answer to this at http://propelorm.org/documentation/reference/schema.html#database-element.
Adding the parameter identifierQuoting="true" to my <database> tag in my schema.xml fixed the problem. I believe you can also add that to a <table> tag to limit it to a single table. I'm not sure why this wouldn't be the default setting.