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Betty Burns, an 81-year-old elder of the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony who has gray, curly hair and wears light-colored glasses, has lived on the colony since she was born in 1941. Made up of a few dozen houses, the colony sits on top of an old landfill, and some of the houses provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development have become uninhabitable after they began to sink into the ground, the frames tilted at an odd angle.