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It would almost be more appropriate to call this the Creek "War" of 1836 in quotation marks. Are any other names used? Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States repeatedly uses such quote marks and describes that the "war" was really just "some attacks" by "desperate Creeks on white settlers" which were then conveniently used a pretext by the U.S. government to say that the Creeks had made war and therefore forfeited their treaty rights: a pretext for Indian removal. Wolfdog (talk) 00:18, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
One general United States history book does not make it a consensus, however. The quotation marks do not match the name of the article nor is it appropriate to do so because Zinn only chose to do so. Here is an example of another conclusion based on extensive research of archival material from John T. Ellisor, "The Second Creek War Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier":
"Historians have traditionally viewed the “Creek War of 1836” as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that, in fact, the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after “peace” was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west."
